Aditya Godbole wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Rahul Sundaram > wrote: >> Aditya Godbole wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Rahul Sundaram >>> wrote: >>> >>>> "Have you got some loose change in your pocket, and dreams of building a >>>> better operating system? It would take about 25 years, nearly 60,000 >>>> developer-years, and $10.8B to re-create a distribution like Fedora 9, >>>> according to a new report from the Linux Foundation. " >>>> >>> The value is equal to the cost? Great! >> Nah. You got to read the entire report for caveats on how the >> calculation works. > > All I saw on the site was the cost of making a software collection like > Fedora. > Here is the conclusion on the report - > "Using this approach, we estimate that it would take $10.8 billion to > develop the Linux distribution Fedora 9 by traditional proprietary > means in year 2008 dollars." > > I don't think thats the value.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/estimatinglinux.php You might want to search for "value" in there and read it entirely. Rahul -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
