Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:27:03 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone |
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* Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey@drdos.com> wrote:
> In business, counter negotiation is allowed. We will pay $50,000.00 in > cold, hard cash to be allowed to snapshot a single 2.<even number> > release that allows GPL conversion to a BSD style license. This offer > is real and we are ready to write a check today.
all the politics aside, the Linux 2.6 kernel, if developed from scratch as commercial software, takes at least this much effort under the default COCOMO model:
Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 4,287,449 Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 1,302.68 (15,632.20) (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05)) Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 8.17 (98.10) (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38)) Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 159.35 Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 175,974,824 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40). SLOCCount is Open Source Software/Free Software, licensed under the FSF GPL. Please credit this data as "generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'."
and you want an unlimited license for $0.05m? What is this, the latest variant of the Nigerian/419 scam?
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