Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems an interesting investment, if you agree with someone saying that RG > project is worth $631,365 in development cost.
Probably about right. My first reaction was that it was a bit high, but then I realised I was reading dollars as pounds. Of course it all depends on how much you imagine us being paid, but at London salary levels that would just about get you two developers and someone to do user documentation, testing etc full-time for about three years, which is probably about what it would take. A lot of development / professional services houses around here would consider that figure almost absurdly cheap for delivery of a working _anything_, but I guess that's beside the point. In terms of actual money spent (e.g. on living expenses while working only on developing Rosegarden), this project has probably cost about $80,000 to date. In replacement earnings terms (how much more one could have earned, had one not been spending so much of one's time working on Rosegarden) it must be easily into several hundreds of thousands. I don't know how many current users Rosegarden has, but it's likely to be few enough that no economic model could be invented that would actually pay for its development, at least not by people with the living costs and so on that its developers actually have. That has a lot to do with the nature of the application, of course -- it's a direct attempt to reproduce a lot of the capabilities of large, old existing programs in a rather traditional way. No commercial company would choose to enter the market with a program that competes directly with Cubase or Sonar, unless it could do so in a markedly different way, that didn't entail duplicating all of the same functionality. Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
