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:Giving Away Software For Free Costs More Than You Would Think (Part 3)
Giving Away Software For Free Costs More Than You Would Think (Part 3)
Oct 6, 2007, 20 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (4879 reads)

"Downloading the source code took nearly 2 days, due to the nature of apt-get, you must first build dependencies, then download the actual source code. There were some annoying programs that once downloaded, require user input (such as LILO) and that paused the downloading process until I provided some human input.

"It took over 8 hours for SLOCCount to process all 51,447 files downloaded, with a 3.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor..."

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There is a big mistake somewhere, becaus ...   7 billion $ sounds cheap for a whole distro   
Hilare
Oct 7, 2007, 00:53:28
 
Is that a lower bound?Minimum, you need  ...   Don't pour so much sweat equity down the drain   
Jose_x
Oct 8, 2007, 01:05:23
 
There are many small/tiny patches that t ...   SLOC is weak   
Jose_X
Oct 8, 2007, 03:20:55
 
Even if the actual cost is $500M over a  ...   Distro's $500M responsibilty   
Stomfi
Oct 8, 2007, 04:46:53
 
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