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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
