Somehow I doubt that. the 4.9 Billion lines of Free software is misleading because a lot of it is redundant --- let's just look at KDE and GNOME. Or Linux kernel and FreeBSD kernel. Do the people on this list really believe that Dragonfly BSD is worth as much as Linux?
Did this Black Duck count the OpenBSD userland separately from the FreeBSD userland? what about MariaDB and MySQL? Counting lines of code blindly across "200,000 open source projects" --- most of which are stagnant or which very few people use --- is quite inaccurate. Apple doesn't have bazillions of cash to spare, but their dedicated engineering team was able to produce a seamless user interface for Unix while the GNOME and KDE communities, which have been at it for years and years, cannot produce an arguably comparable user experience. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Silverlokk <[email protected]> wrote: > http://blogs.computerworld.com/how_many_billions_is_open_source_software_worth > > > > > Sent to you by Silverlokk via Google Reader: > > > > > How many billions is open-source software worth? > > via Computerworld Blogs blogs by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on 4/27/09 > > Go ahead, take a guess. Here's a hint: It's well over a hundred-billion. -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
