23rd October Comments

Avoided Costs and Competitive Benefits: Estimating the Value of Linux

Posted on October 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 am

 

Today, the Linux Foundation is releasing a report that shows just how valuable FOSS can be. The authors find that recreating Fedora 9.1 (the free distribution upon which Red Hat’s current Linux release is based) using traditional proprietary methods would cost $10.8 billion. They also find that the cost of creating the Linux kernel alone would be $1.4 billion.

And that is just some of the cost advantages that Linux has to offer, get the hint business, Baldy

Avoided Costs and Competitive Benefits: Estimating the Value of Linux

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