Fedora ‘cost’ 10.8bn according to Linux Foundation – says developer Fusion
06 Aug 2009 Leave a Comment
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Recently I came across an interesting news article on www.developerfusion.com …..
A report recently published by the Linux Foundation – taking into account a wide variety of factors – has concluded that to build Fedora, an open-source Linux distribution, from scratch today would cost 10.8 billion £6.7 billion …
Using data from the US Department of Labor, the number of lines of code in the Fedora source, and building on research from 2002, the foundation ran the 204,500,946 lines of code and an average developer’s salary of 75,662.08 £47,006.68 through a COCOMO cost estimation model to reach the final value.
More about it can be read at:-
http://www.developerfusion.com/news/article/9073/fedora-cost-108bn-according-to-linux-foundation/
