The million dollar messenger
As you may have seen in Slashdot, Former Microsoft employes launched a site called Ohloh which is basically a Web 2.0 opensource software directory with tags, metrics and other useful information other directories don’t have.
It was nice to find Kopete there. The project was estimated in a US$ 735,875 cost, with 54,763 LOC. That surprised me, since last time a measured the codebase, it was above 100,000 lines of code. It also surprised me my level of activity, giving the fact I haven’t coded anything since long time and most of today’s coding work is being done by our beloved “kids club” (the young generation leaded by Olivier, Michael and others), and most release and package management by our very own Matt .
I quicky noticed they got the data from our old repository in Sourceforge, which was migrated to KDE’s repositories years ago. So they estimated a very old version.
Anyway, it is so amazing to see something that started from nothing, inspired by a bored night could cause a chain-reaction that generated a product that would cost a million dollar to develop in a commercial environment and that anyone can use for free.
K3b is also indexed, and estimated in $611,652, also from a sourceforge repository, which I imagine, is also outdated.
We deserve a million dollar party 
“No se ilusionen, yo una vez pedi muchos CDs de Ubuntu con la idea de regalarlos en la universidad y entre redes de amigos.
A pesar que venia claramente especificado que era todo gratis, los de aduanas no entendieron y en vez de los CDs recibi una factura por mas de 100 USD que debia pagar si queria retirar los CDs.
Los CDs quedaron alli, me imagino que deben estar colgados en los espejos de los automoviles de los funcionarios de aduanas ahora ;-)”
Hay un limite en numero de CD’s a pedir… me paso lo mismo =P
hell
17 Jul 06 at 1:41 pm
Note, that there is one real millionaire from KDE - Umbrello. Also from outdated Sourceforge repository though.
Hasso Tepper
17 Jul 06 at 2:16 pm
What about Amarok? 10 billions?
fish
18 Jul 06 at 8:57 am
It would be nice to notify them to look for the right site in order to have current stats IMHO.
FACORAT Fabrice
18 Jul 06 at 12:02 pm
I already notified them
duncan
19 Jul 06 at 4:36 am