Value of Debian GNU/Linux.
The paper Measuring Free and Libre Software studying the size of the source packages in Debian 3.1 'Sarge' calculates the size of sarge (close to 230 million lines of source code), the use of the various programming languages in which the software has been written, and the size of the packages included in the distribution. It also estimates cost to create something on the scale of Debian from scratch with a classical and well-known cost method (COCOMO) to be over 8 billion US dollar.
*www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2005/3/up6-3Amor.pdf
Source: DWN - Debian Weekly News < *www.nl.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/37/ >
The paper Measuring Free and Libre Software studying the size of the source packages in Debian 3.1 'Sarge' calculates the size of sarge (close to 230 million lines of source code), the use of the various programming languages in which the software has been written, and the size of the packages included in the distribution. It also estimates cost to create something on the scale of Debian from scratch with a classical and well-known cost method (COCOMO) to be over 8 billion US dollar.
*www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2005/3/up6-3Amor.pdf
Source: DWN - Debian Weekly News < *www.nl.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/37/ >
