In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:02:08 +0000
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> SAP: We spend lots of money, therefore we provide value
>
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> | We ran out of time, but I had raised my hand to ask Mr. Agassi why it
> | takes him $1.4 billion to come up with a product and distribution
> | model that open source companies routinely do for under $10 million,
> | and much more efficiently (and with huge economic benefits for the
> | world). I mean, really. His investors should be running for the
> | doors when they hear just how expensive it is for him to eke out
> | meager returns in a market that is ripe for open source.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Mr. Agassi: With that $1.4 billion you are wasting I could build
> | hundreds of open source startups/projects that would create a
> | massive amount of customer value. Why don't you do that, instead?
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> http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/02/sap_we_waste_lo.html
>
> What more, the customer is paying for all the advertising (e.g. 0.5$ billion
> for Vista).
>
Could be worse. Could be the US taxpayer... :-/
>
> Related:
>
> What is Your Operating System Worth?
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> ,----[ Quote ]
> | If you are using Linux what did you pay? Nothing? A dollar or two to
> | get it from a cheap ISO dump? But what is it really worth?
> `----
>
> http://sweetcomputing.com/index.php?wiki=What_is_your_operating_system_worth
>
> General Statistics for Debian Sarge Code Counting
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Total Estimated Cost to Develop 1,752,867,00,000$
> `----
>
> http://libresoft.dat.escet.urjc.es/debian-counting/sarge/index.php?menu=Statistics
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