Re: Cost of Octave

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:

>On 21-Jul-2006, Javier Arantegui wrote:
>
>| Hello,
>| 
>| If we wanted to write Octave, how much would it cost us? According to 
>| http://www.ohloh.net, we would need $700,516 and 13 man years:
>| 
>| http://www.ohloh.net/opensource/software/octave
>| 
>| That's a lot of money and effort!
>| 
>| To put the data in perspective, the estimated cost of Maxima is $1,089,624 
>and 
>| the cost of Gnuplot is $1,170,857:
>| 
>| http://www.ohloh.net/compare/detail?projects=maxima+gnuplot+octave
>
>I think these numbers are quite low.
>
>jwe
>  
>
John, the octave number only includes octave-forge and doesn't even
include the m-files of octave-forge as far as I can see. So I expect the
real octave number is probably almost an order of magnitude higher if
octave and octave-forge are included..

D.


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