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Re: Cost of Octave
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David Bateman |
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Re: Cost of Octave |
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Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:29:52 +0200 |
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John W. Eaton wrote:
>On 21-Jul-2006, 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
>
>I think these numbers are quite low.
>
>jwe
>
>
John, the octave number only includes octave-forge and doesn't even
include the m-files of octave-forge as far as I can see. So I expect the
real octave number is probably almost an order of magnitude higher if
octave and octave-forge are included..
D.
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