Re: The Ubuntu software repository contains over 121 million lines of code and is worth over 7 billion dollars

["Ask Bjørn Hansen" <user=1519@nabble.blu.org>]

On Oct 6, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 

> Using the COCOMO model, they estimated the actual cost to produce the 
> software in the Ubuntu repositories.  Very interesting.  I wonder if 
> it is accurate, but I wouldn't be surprised if the final number was 
> close... 
> http://www.fsckin.com/2007/09/29/giving-away-software-for-free-  
> costs-more-than-you-would-think/ 

I used COCOMO on some (obviously comparatively tiny-tiny-tiny)   
consulting projects and the amounts it came up with were surprisingly   
close to what I estimated by adding up how many people had worked on   
the project, what I estimated they cost the client etc. 


  - ask 

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