From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@drdos.com>
Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
"jmerkey@comcast.net" <jmerkey@comcast.net>,
jonathan@jonmasters.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:27:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041008122703.GA15604@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4165B53F.2060707@drdos.com>
* 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?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-08 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-01 17:40 jmerkey
2004-10-01 18:23 ` Jesse Pollard
2004-10-01 19:34 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-01 19:46 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-01 20:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-01 20:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-01 22:09 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-01 21:53 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-01 23:51 ` Michael Poole
2004-10-02 2:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
[not found] ` <20041002064620.GA8568@galt.devicelogics.com>
2004-10-02 10:27 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-02 17:34 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-03 11:46 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-10-03 11:59 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-03 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-04 0:23 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-10-07 19:21 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-07 20:24 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-07 21:22 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-07 22:32 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-07 22:57 ` Hua Zhong
2004-10-08 8:19 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2004-10-07 21:07 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-07 21:16 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-07 21:40 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-10-07 21:17 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-07 22:02 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-10-07 21:29 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-08 12:27 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-10-08 18:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-08 18:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-10-09 9:50 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-10-08 12:16 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-07 22:18 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-07 21:51 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-07 22:41 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-08 0:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 23:50 ` viro
2004-10-08 0:40 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-08 0:59 ` Jon Masters
[not found] ` <20041008032034.GD3528@galt.devicelogics.com>
2004-10-08 7:15 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-08 12:38 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-08 12:50 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-08 13:48 ` Bruce Ferrell
2004-10-08 15:14 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-08 2:48 ` Erik Andersen
2004-10-10 6:35 ` Brian Litzinger
2004-10-10 13:25 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-10 22:26 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-11 11:57 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-08 2:40 ` Erik Andersen
2004-10-08 8:50 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-08 11:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-04 20:26 ` Jesse Pollard
2004-10-02 12:35 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-10-04 18:03 ` Bill Davidsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-29 13:44 Ralph Corderoy
2004-10-01 14:52 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-01 14:20 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-01 15:59 ` Ralph Corderoy
2004-10-01 16:00 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-01 16:24 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-01 15:59 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-01 17:18 ` Jon Masters
2005-01-07 21:48 ` Jonathan McDowell
2005-01-15 13:43 ` Jonathan McDowell
2005-01-26 16:47 ` Jonathan McDowell
2004-10-01 17:24 ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-10-01 16:14 ` James Courtier-Dutton
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