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Estimating the Size/Cost of Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-thats-a-lotta-dough dept.

2bits writes "Wow... A Billion Dollars Worth Of Software On My System For Free! Check This Guy Out, He Came Up With A Counting / Pricing Method For Quite A Few Types of Source Code. Here is the Program. The results on the site are sorta dated, based on RH 7.1, but the app is pretty cool!... Hey, I can finally find out how much all my side projects are worth / costing me..."

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  1. Re:bad news for Linux? by John+Hasler · · Score: 2, Flamebait


    This looks like a serious problem for Linux
    distributors like Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian.
    They sell their products ... for $40-$100,
    usually.

    Wrong. Debian doesn't sell anything.

    Now we see that what they put into their product
    (i.e., the cost) is orders of magnitude beyond
    that.

    Wrong again. Red Hat's costs are what they actually spend, not what the stuff they distribute would have cost if it had not been given to them.

    even if nobody downloaded it for free...

    There's your clue: _Red_ _Hat_ downloads the stuff they distribute for free.

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