On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Ross Gardler <ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > This whole process is nonsense
In general I agree - CoCoMo is the worst model for valuation (except for all of the others) > > What is important is what economic value does the code produce. If we look at > it that way I'd say our code (and that of LF for that matter) is worth many, > many $B more than these numbers imply. The HTTPd project, for example, drives > over 50% of the web - what's the value of the web? > Yes, the important measure for us as a non-profit charity, and what we should be highlighting is our impact on the world. 8 Trillion in commerce will traverse the web this year, and roughly 50% of that will be served by httpd - so $4T through a single project alone. The impact is huge, not just in the web server space, but in Big Data, NoSQL, Java, etc.
