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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. It's even more interesting from an accounting view by rcs1000 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If a corporation buys a Linux seat (or heck, downloads an ISO) then it has acquired an asset. Admittedly a digital one, but an asset nonetheless.

    Now, if GE can revalue its pension assets upwards, when their value has gone down, then surely the corporation can revalue it to a 'market' rate of (say) $10,000 a seat.

    Rolling it out to all the people in your organisation then, gosh!, your company is suddenly as profitable as Enron or WorldCom were.

    Best of all, so long as you never run out of blank CDs, your company can continue to make massive profits.

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