Re:How big is a Million Lines of Code?
by Xichekolas on Sunday January 20, 2008 @08:36PM
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I enjoyed the following at the end of the article (with context added by me):
Think about that last analogy: A million [lines of code costs a million] times the cost of the flash chips [it is stored on]. Yet accounting screams over each added penny in recurring costs, while chanting the dual mantras "software is free," and "hey, it's only a software change."
I've worked at a place like that before. They would pay a full team of developers for several months to roll our own custom solution to something we could have bought off the shelf for $1000. People just don't see software as expensive to develop... and unless it's open source, it is.
Think about that last analogy: A million [lines of code costs a million] times the cost of the flash chips [it is stored on]. Yet accounting screams over each added penny in recurring costs, while chanting the dual mantras "software is free," and "hey, it's only a software change."
I've worked at a place like that before. They would pay a full team of developers for several months to roll our own custom solution to something we could have bought off the shelf for $1000. People just don't see software as expensive to develop... and unless it's open source, it is.