On Wednesday 14 March 2012 07:58:27 Nagarjuna G wrote: > 2012/3/13 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) <[email protected]> > > > On Tuesday 13 Mar 2012, Sunil Abraham wrote: > > > Apologies for posting a job notice on this list. But since it has > > > policy implications - I hope you will forgive me. > > > > > > DIT is looking for a TCO study between FOSS and proprietary software > > > at the district level. CIS has promised to undertake this study for > > > them. > > > > There are 5 types of lies, increasing in degree in order of naming: > > > > - Lies > > - Damned lies > > - Statistics > > - Benchmark reports > > - TCO studies > > > > So go it and make our case :-) > > Sunil, > > 1. how much you will add for each line of source code published?
As per current pricing the Debian distro is valued at USD14 billion. Coding complexity is assumed normal. The value goes to USD25 billion if coding complexity is assumed complex. The authors of the above study were being conservative. Imo it would be even higher if the complexity is assumed exceedingly complex, which it is, given that no company is able to produce anything comparable. > 2. how much would you add for nurturing the collaborative culture among > people? Sunil will have to use network theory. There are studies which assigns value to collaborative structures. These studies show that value increases non linearly as the network size grows. > 3. how much would you add for self-reliance the nation/agency gains? That will be easily computable by getting the import costs and royalty repatriation costs. > 4. how much you would add for granting the freedom to use, study, modify > and distribute? Can be computed from studying the balance sheets of MNCs like TI, AD, IBM etc and deriving their code creation costs and retail selling price - marketing etc. Also include royalty payments from collaborations between Indian and foreign companies. > > The paradigms of proprietary software don't match with free software, for > there is no single yardstick. Therefore they are incommensurable. All the above must be included. > You fell into the trap. IMO, it would be a fantastic study and reference material if all the above are taken into consideration. The value, even when reduced to monetary terms, would be far in excess of what any policy maker ever imagined. I hope there are no serious time and or monetary constraints in doing the study. It will be just the right thing required to pitch to governments, subject to the above being taken into consideration. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
