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

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Marius Nestor
Sep 30, 2015

Thanks to the COCOMO method, they managed to estimate the total amount of effort that is required for backtracking the steps of collaborative development to around 41,192.25 person-years, which means that it would take about 30 years for a team of 1,356 developers to recreate the Linux Foundation’s Collaborative Projects code base. As such, this effort is estimated to more than $5 billion (???4.4 billion).
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