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The User Friendly comic strip had the best reply to this: if Open Source
is viral, or cancerous, what's the medical analogy for Microsoft?
Tourette's Syndrome.
Microsoft has also called open source "unAmerican." As a Canadian, I'm
**really** worried about this claim ;-)
I'll add:
It seems to me that Linux and other Open Source projects are achieving
their goals. The Goliath of Redmond wouldn't be whining and complaining
if the Open Source guys and gals weren't hitting the target. <VBG>
In a nutshell: The article "More than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's
Size" examines Red Hat Linux 7.1's source code as a representative
GNU/Linux distribution. It found that it would cost over $1 billion (a
Gigabuck) to develop, that it includes over 30 million physical source
lines of code (SLOC), and that it would have required about 8,000
person-years to develop. Red Hat Linux 7.1 represents over a 60%
increase in size, effort, and traditional development costs over Red Hat
Linux 6.2 (which was released about one year earlier). Its predominant
software license is the GNU GPL.
Microsoft wishes it had development resources like this.
BTW, for the newbies wanting to develop a portfolio, a lot of Open
Source projects still need documentation.
John Gilger
Senior Technical Writer
Acres Gaming, Inc.
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