FOSS is the 'largest software company in the world'

[David Gerard]

On 20/04/2008, ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com> wrote:

>  'Standish also says that if open source product and service were
>  calculated at commercial prices, the open source initiative would be
>  the largest software company in the world, outselling Microsoft,
>  Oracle and Computer Associates combined.'
>  'And if all its annual hours were added up and divided by the average
>  workweek, the open source community would equate to the largest
>  software employer in the world.'


This phenomenon also applies to such works as Wikipedia (and
Uncyclopedia), of course.

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/UnNews:Research:_Uncyclopedia_worker_interruptions_costly

Of course, in Wikipedia's case it's the employers of the world
subsidising it ...


- d.