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, 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. -aditya -- ______________________________________________________________________ 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.
