Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:03:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:03:41 -0400 Received: from hq.fsmlabs.com ([209.155.42.197]:36574 "EHLO hq.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:03:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:04:48 -0600 From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com To: Larry McVoy , "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BK is *evil* corporate software [was Re: New BK License Problem?] Message-ID: <20021010080448.A17675@hq.fsmlabs.com> References: <20021005112552.A9032@work.bitmover.com> <20021007001137.A6352@elf.ucw.cz> <5.1.0.14.2.20021007204830.00b8b460@pop.gmx.net> <20021007143134.V14596@work.bitmover.com> <20021009165500.L27050@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021009165500.L27050@work.bitmover.com>; from lm@bitmover.com on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:55:00PM -0700 Organization: FSM Labs Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1018 Lines: 30 On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:55:00PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Let's insert some fact in this discussion: > > OK. > > > Basically you charge a small(-ish) company about $25k for any > > reasonable license. This is about as much as we spent for Software in > > the last seven years (we do own a few Windows and Office licenses). The historical expense for software in your company has absolutely no relation to the cost-effectiveness of a new purchase as far as I can see. But it is interesting that you can hire a full time "really good" programmer for total cost of $50K/year. Salaries are dropping. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/