[SLUG] Open Source research material

[Jamie Adams]

Thats a cool link. thanks Ian. (oops top posting!)

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Ian Eade @ IGM wrote:

> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 14:42:18 +0100
> From: "Ian Eade @ IGM" <ieade at igmwebdesign.info>
> Reply-To: scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
> To: scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [SLUG] Open Source research material
>
> If you're after some Open Source research material check this
> organisation out:
>
> http://opensource.mit.edu
>
> And for starters heres:
>
> Counting Potatoes
> In this paper, we use David A. Wheeler's SLOCCount system to determine
> the number of physical source lines of code (SLOC) of Debian 2.2 (aka
> potato). It is also shown that if Debian had been developed using
> traditional proprietary methods, the COCOMO model estimates that its
> cost would be close to $1.9 billion USD to develop Debian 2.2.
>
> http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/counting-potatoes.html
>
> Enjoy
>
> Ian
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Jamie
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