The developer version of Debian GNU/Linux ("wheezy") contains 17,141 packages of software, or 419,776,604 lines of code . With that figure, James Bromberger estimates that Debian would cost about $19.1 billion to produce . Bromberger also looks at the cost of individual projects like PHP, Apache and MySQL. Even at more than $19 billion, the figure is likely far short of what it would actually …
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