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Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion

posted by martyb on Friday July 31 2020, @01:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the gonna-need-more-disks dept.

takyon writes:

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: 2) by choose another one on Friday July 31 2020, @11:33AM (1 child)

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 31 2020, @11:33AM (#1029218)

    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?

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday July 31 2020, @04:20PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday July 31 2020, @04:20PM (#1029343) Journal

    Surely it's the cost to recreate it if you paid some ridiculous rates per LOC,

    The rates in these are based on real rates for production-ready code. Writing the code is a pretty small part of the cost.

    and recreated every single LOC (so there is no redundant, unused, legacy etc. code there at all).

    Correct, it's hard to measure the cost of completely rewriting equivalent functionality. Second system costs are quite tricky to estimate.

    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?

    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.

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