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Fedora 9 Would Cost $10.8B To Build From Scratch
ruphus13 writes "The Linux Foundation's recently released report claims, '... it would take approximately $10.8 billion to build the Linux community distribution Fedora 9 in today's dollars with today's software development costs.' The article states why this might actually understate the value of the distros, though, since it doesn't include the power of the brand and the goodwill value. 'There were several approaches that the Linux Foundation employed to reach the $10.8 billion dollar figure, including calculating the number of lines of code in Fedora 9 (204,500,946), and using an average programmer's salary of $75,662.08 — as determined by the US Department of Labor — to measure development costs ... On the balance sheets of Coca Cola and many other huge corporations, you find goodwill listed as a major asset.'"
You make $3.78/hr ?
Or twice that per hour and half the hours, while working part-time to grind experience. Worse, I had to work for two years for $0/hr as a regular volunteer for the local veterans' hospital before employers would see past the symptoms of my (mostly controlled) mental illness.
Or you move to somewhere where you can afford to buy a house (if you really do want a house). This whole economic crisis of ours is/was exacerbated by people Keeping Up With The Joneses (tm) and being way over their heads debt to pay for it all.
...and you still suffer dependency hell. Drop RPM's for deb's, and I'll use Fedora.