Re: Cost of Octave

[David Bateman]

Javier Arantegui wrote:

>Hello,
>
>If we wanted to write Octave, how much would it cost us? According to 
>http://www.ohloh.net, we would need $700,516 and 13 man years:
>
>http://www.ohloh.net/opensource/software/octave
>
>That's a lot of money and effort!
>
>To put the data in perspective, the estimated cost of Maxima is $1,089,624 and 
>the cost of Gnuplot is $1,170,857:
>
>http://www.ohloh.net/compare/detail?projects=maxima+gnuplot+octave
>
>Javier
>P.S. This is a Friday pre-vacation message, I beg your pardon for increasing 
>the noise/useful information ratio.
>
>
>  
>
I'd seen this in the past I couldn't really make sense of some of the
number (especially for octave-forge) I suspect the fashion in which it
counts the m-files is not necessarily correct..

D.

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