just how big is $800 billion

Thu Feb 12 20:57:35 UTC 2009

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:59:55PM -0500, bob 295 wrote:
> If my math is right we could allocate $3.5million to each of the 230,000 open 
> source projects currently hosted on Sourceforge.net.      That could 
> potentially create one bucketload of open source developer jobs,  to say 
> nothing of the wealth creation in the form of new software applications.
> 
> Oh well,  missed opportunity ...

Yeah, because software is the only thing we need more of. :)

Quality, not quantity please.  A lot of the stuff on sourceforge is
garbage.

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