[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcf_discussion] commons based innovation value

[Michel Bauwens]

I would appreciate a volunteer to treat this on our blog as well!!

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From: stef <stefan.marsiske at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:41 AM
Subject: [fcf_discussion] commons based innovation value
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sorry for the buzzword-bingo subject, in case you have missed this:
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/24/155214/The-Billion-Dollar-Kernel
> "The Linux kernel would cost more than one billion EUR (about 1.4 billion
USD)
> to develop in European Union. This is the estimate made by researchers
from
> University of Oviedo (Spain), whereby the value annually added to this
product
> was about 100 million EUR between 2005 and 2007 and 225 million EUR in
2008.
> Estimated 2008 result is comparable to 4% and 12% of Microsoft's and
Google's
> R&D expenses on whole company products. Cost model 'Intermediate COCOMO81'
is
> used according to parametric estimations by David Wheeler. An average
annual
> base salary for a developer of 31,040 EUR was estimated from the EUROSTAT.
> Previously, similar works had been done by several authors estimating Red
Hat,
> Debian, and Fedora distributions. The cost estimation is not of itself
> important, but it is an important means to and end: that commons-based
> innovation must receive a higher level of official recognition that would
set
> it as an alternative to decision-makers. Ideally, legal and regulatory
> framework must allow companies participating on commons-based R&D to
generate
> intangible assets for their contribution to successful projects.
Otherwise,
> expenses must have an equitable tax treatment as a donation to social
> welfare."

this could be useful for economic models. the calculation is based on
cocomo81
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO

cheers,s

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