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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. I don't believe it!!!! by joshsnow · · Score: 0, Troll

    Someone finally acknowledging that OpenSource/Free(beer) software actually has an associated cost - what next? Wait - is that a flying pig I see?