[Xastir-Dev] Re: [Xastir] Xastir's first year on SourceForge

[Curt Mills]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Curt Mills wrote:

> Statistics for All Time
>
> Rank    %      Page Views  D/l    Bugs         All Trkr     CVS
> 765 ( 79.68 )  62,696      3,979  128 ( 115 )  324 ( 200 )  1,513


I forgot some important stats:

"cat *.h *.c | wc -l" equals 84728 lines of code.  That's the line
count I have this morning for the CVS version.

If we had a nickel for each line of code, we'd have $4,236.40 lining
our pockets.

If we had a nickel for each bug fixed, we'd have $5.75.  Ok, perhaps
bug fixes should be worth more in this hypothetical world...

A nickel for every CVS commit yields $75.65.  Not much for all that
work, right guys?

Just goes to show you, if it were a paying project, nickels wouldn't
cut it.  This software would be costly.

Oh yea, if we required a $50.00 license fee for every copy running,
assuming that every download equals one copy running (a bad
assumption I know), that'd be $198,950.  Did I do that right?
200,000 dollars!  Some of the shareware packages are in the range of
$50 per license.  Even if only 1/10 of the downloads were licensed,
that's still $20,000.

At $16 per copy (roughly Ui-view's license fee), it'd be $63,664.
Not too bad for eleven month's work.

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