Comment: Re:Piracy: Free Advertising (Score 1) 321
No adjustment layers (as of last year). No soft proofing for print - two very big dealbreakers right there.
The Billion Dollar Kernel 289
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CmdrTaco
from the that's-a-lotta-dough dept.
from the that's-a-lotta-dough dept.
jesgar writes "The Linux kernel would cost more than one billion EUR (about 1.4 billion USD) to develop in the European Union. This is the estimate made by researchers from the University of Oviedo (PPT), whereby the value annually added to this product was about 100 million EUR between 2005 and 2007 and 225 million EUR in 2008. The 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 an 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 frameworks 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."
Comment: Re:I'm following the elections-2nd seat not likely (Score 1) 674
There already is a finnish chapter, that is now recognized as an official political party. However, they missed the registration date for the EU election by a hair. The next election will come in a few years.
NIST Hash Algorithm Contest
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Owen Linderholm
Owen Linderholm writes "The NIST has called for a complete reworking of the hash algorithms used for security in SSL and TLS. The background and details are covered here but the bottom line is that this is the future of security on the internet.
http://www.itsecurity.com/features/next-generation -nist-algorithms-013107/"
http://www.itsecurity.com/features/next-generatio