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Apache Software Foundation Estimates Its Code Value Increased ~$600M For FY2020
For fiscal year 2019 the Apache Software Foundation valued their codebase at around $20 billion USD. The open-source organization has now published their annual report for fiscal year 2020.
The Apache Software Foundation's FY2020 report values their massive code-base now in excess of $20 billion dollars using the CoCoMo[*] model. With eight million lines of code added over their fiscal year, they estimate that increase to be approximately worth $600 million USD worth of work.
[*] Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO).
Blog post. Annual Report FY2020.
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(Score: 1) by Frosty Piss on Friday July 31 2020, @01:23AM (13 children)
A stupid question: Something that is *free*, how do you value that? The licensing insures that the Intellectual Property can not be sold for exclusive use, i.e. the GPL...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @01:27AM (1 child)
Larry Ellison's lawyers will not understand the question.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @01:35AM
How many lines of code are Uncle Larry's OpenOffice, that literally no one uses having migrated to Libre?
(Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Friday July 31 2020, @01:35AM (5 children)
yOu UsE tHe CoCoMo MoDeL.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @01:47AM (1 child)
A lot of Apache is Java libraries, make sense they'd use a CocoaMug model.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @01:58AM
Bunch of has beans in need of better code covfefe.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 31 2020, @01:56AM
Ohhhh-kay - https://www.modelmanagement.com/model/ilvy-kokomo/ [modelmanagement.com]
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday July 31 2020, @02:37PM
Sure it's not spelled the same, but I've got a much better kokomo model for you. https://youtu.be/mP07Oyr7enQ [youtu.be] (Kokomo by the "Beach Boys" with lyrics.)
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(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday July 31 2020, @04:25PM
I need some Cocodamol after reading that camelCase...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by driverless on Friday July 31 2020, @07:45AM (1 child)
That's the next thing about OSS, with commercial software you've got an actual market value, with OSS you can just pull any figure out of your ass. Want to make the value small for tax purposes, make it small. Want to make it big to impress pointy-hairs, make it big. We support an OSS project and once managed to come up with a value for it that was around 50% of the national GDP based on fairly sensible industry metrics every step of the way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @07:45PM
"That's the next thing about OSS, with commercial software"
FOSS can be commercial. you mean "proprietary" or "slaveware".
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday July 31 2020, @11:02AM (2 children)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Friday July 31 2020, @11:33AM (1 child)
Surely it's the cost to recreate it if you paid some ridiculous rates per LOC, and recreated every single LOC (so there is no redundant, unused, legacy etc. code there at all).
Why the heck wouldn't you recreate it (if needed) for free (or at least for comparatively very little), using volunteer labour, the same way you created it?
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday July 31 2020, @04:20PM
The rates in these are based on real rates for production-ready code. Writing the code is a pretty small part of the cost.
Correct, it's hard to measure the cost of completely rewriting equivalent functionality. Second system costs are quite tricky to estimate.
There's an assumption that no one was paid to write it in the first place. That's often not true for open source software. Open source is free to copy, not necessarily free to write. A lot of the open source code that I've written was paid for by people who wanted the extra features.
sudo mod me up