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Fedora 9 Would Cost $10.8B To Build From Scratch

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-a-lot-of-hats dept.

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.'"

6 of 293 comments (clear)

  1. that'd be one expensive hat by bornyesterday · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i didn't realize that the market for felt was so harsh these days

  2. Grinding by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  3. Re:Average salary? by the_humeister · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  4. New MS business plan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hold Linux distros to ransom for... one billion dollars! Paying off MS is more financially viable than replacing distro, easy call for the world's governments to make.

  5. Re:Average salary? by WhiteWolf666 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You make $7,566.20 a year?

    In the U.S.?

    You know, Aldi's is paying cashiers $12.50 an hour plus benefits at entry level. There's really no excuse to be making less than $25,000 a year, in the U.S., if you have no physical, psychological, or family barriers preventing you from working.

    --
    WhiteWolf666 an exBush supporter. All you new-school,compassionate,save the children Republicans can rot in hell
  6. $10.9B... by ProteusQ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...and you still suffer dependency hell. Drop RPM's for deb's, and I'll use Fedora.