Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:24:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: forrestc@iMach.com (Forrest W. Christian) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Opensource is not free Message-ID: <200004050624.XAA33558@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004041821470.23759-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> from "Forrest W. Christian" at "Apr 4, 2000 07:45:06 pm"
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BRAVO!!! Only one small nit... $2.7M/year, starting in 1993 puts it at about a $18.9M price tag. Ohhh.. and don't tell me we didn't have 150 committers back then, as the 10 to 20 of us where putting in way more than 1 hour/day, some where doing more than 40 hrs/week for the first year or two. Some place some where I have the outline for a paper titled ``Free Software, the Real Cost and Who has Payed Them''. Beyond the commiters there was money spent by UCB and a dozen other colleges, much of which came from federal funding via grants and darpa contracts. Another interesting stat to toss out is the average line of code costs something like $50.00 over it's lifetime including maintanance and recoding, if we stayed constant at 6.6M lines it would have a cost/value of $330M!!! > Since I probably am about to step in a puddle of gasoline with what I am > about to say, I'd just like to preface this with this isn't meant as an > attack on anyone, but instead as some food for thought. I'm not > particularly good with saying things in a tactful manner, and I'd rather > not muddy what I'm trying to say by "softening" it. > > It seems that a growing number of posters to the list seem to not > understand that FreeBSD and other OpenSource projects have a real cost > which every user should help to bear. .... > > Now think about this: The "committers" have donated 2.7 million dollars > of labor to FreeBSD, what have you done? $2.7M in just the last year... :-) Ohh.. and the 1 hour/day thing would barely allow a committer the time to read the mandatory -commit mail in order to be a committer :-) Another words each of those 150 people is burning about $18,250/year of his/her own time just reading email. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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