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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: 5, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 31 2020, @04:53AM (4 children)
unless someone is willing to pay for it. Artists understand that. A painter I knew painted a lot of things. She assigned values to her paintings. Took me into her parlour one day, and told me to pick out any painting I wanted. I didn't really want a painting, but I browsed around. Found a pic of a girl, obstructed by the straw hat she was wearing. Couldn't see the girl, couldn't even estimate her age - anything from six to young adulthood. The hat, though, was rendered in the finest detail. I liked it.
Jo tells me that painting isn't worth anything, choose something of value. Phhht. Nothing else appealed to me. I went home with the painting of a hat, under which some girl was hidden. A shoulder, and parts of two arms were all that was visible of that girl, and a little bit of her dress.
Jo's paintings that she valued at hundreds, and even thousands, of dollars, simply had no value to me.
Found out later, that the painting was of her grand daughter, wearing an Easter straw hat, when the child was ten.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @05:40AM (2 children)
People do pay for it. ASF has revenues in the neighborhood of $1 Billion. [apache.org]
(Score: 4, Informative) by choose another one on Friday July 31 2020, @11:27AM (1 child)
Think you are a few orders of magnitude out - revenues were around $1 Million, check the actual filings, or just google Apache Foundation Revenue
Getting $1M a year from a $20Bn asset is... frankly pathetic.
Conclusion: it ain't a $20Bn asset. The asset lines of the tax filings also prove that it isn't considered to be one either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @10:04PM
You are right. I was looking at financials that were in thousands of dollars earlier yesterday and I think my brain defaulted back again when looking at theirs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @06:14PM
When the artist abandons their ‘style’ and produces what sells
https://whatculture.com/music/9-musicians-who-sold-out-the-hardest [whatculture.com]