The Linux Foundation Estimates the Total Costs of Collaborative Projects to $5 Billion

Posted by hanuca on Oct 1, 2015 2:09 AM EDT
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In a recent blog post, The Linux Foundation, through Amanda McPherson, announces a report that strives to answer the following question: "What does it cost to build world's technology infrastructure?"

The Linux Foundation's report, which is based on the well-known COCOMO code analysis method, estimates the total development costs of a collaborative project to $5 billion (€4.4 billion). While analyzing the code in their project's Git repositories, The Linux Foundation discovered some impressive numbers, such as the presence of a total of 115,013,302 lines of source code in the organization's collaborative projects.

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