The Cost of Linux

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Jeremy Clark

The Linux Foundation has calculated the total cost of developing a Linux Distro. They used Fedora 9 as their basis. The total cost estimated to be 10.8 billion dollars. With 1.4 of that developing the kernel alone. They came to this figure through calculating based on the number of lines of code and the average salary of a software developer. It has estimated that to develop from scratch it would take 24 years. There are more interesting stats in the Whitepaper.

About Jeremy Clark

Small town IT worker with interests in all things technological and technical. Biggest interests are in web development especially the WordPress publishing platform and the community supporting it. Currently developing and maintain the free WordPress theme Techozoic. I'm also always available for hire.
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