Aditya Godbole wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Rahul Sundaram > wrote: >> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/estimatinglinux.php >> >> You might want to search for "value" in there and read it entirely. > > I did. In all the places where they have used the word 'value', they > mean cost.
Not so simplistically however. Besides media reports tend to expand and interpret the report in various ways as well. > Perhaps this is a new age economics about which I have no idea. It is not new (theory was published in 1981). It is based on the original work done by David Wheeler at http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/redhat71-v1/redhat71sloc.html. The model used is called COCOMO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO The report does reference all these details btw. 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.
