[plug] Debian Wheezy: US$19 Billion worth of software

[Craig Inches]

On 2/13/2012 2:45 PM, James Bromberger wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Just a heads up on a little project I hacked away on last week to get a
> value for Debian Wheezy: I ran the sloccount tool over the entire Wheezy
> source repository and, using a current US average developer salary, came
> up with a value to start from scratch of just overUS$19 Billion, AU$17
> Billion.
>
> http://blog.james.rcpt.to/2012/02/13/debian-wheezy-us19-billion-your-price-free/
>
>
>    James ;)
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Heya James,

Nicely done! This was picked up by Linux Today, and ITWire I noticed 
going through my RSS feeds this morning.

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2012-02-13-003-41-OS-DB

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/52740-code-in-next-debian-release-valued-at-a17-billion

Cheers,
Craig