Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 valued at $10.8B

2008-10-26 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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/

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 valued at $10.8B

2008-10-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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 > m

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 valued at $10.8B

2008-10-25 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Als

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 valued at $10.8B

2008-10-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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 a

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 valued at $10.8B

2008-10-24 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 valued at $10.8B

2008-10-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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 Fe

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 valued at $10.8B

2008-10-24 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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, > ac

[PLUG] Fedora 9 valued at $10.8B

2008-10-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, A report from Linux Foundation... http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS5325969099.html "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