[lloeki]

> It makes no sense to estimate the total cost of the proprietary equivalent of _all_ that is currently OSS at $177M

Right. I mean, I would guesstimate, say, sqlite alone to cost in the ballpark of that amount of money to develop from scratch in a proprietary way.

I mean, working from the initial hypothesis, if sqlite suddenly disappeared and someone starts a company aiming to develop and sell it, how much $$ would VCs throw at the project? How much at Rails? ext4/btrfs/zfs?

The latter gets interesting because Sun threw actual money at ZFS. Comparatively, how much money has, say, Apple spent on APFS? MS on NTFS? How much has been spent on Unix and its descendants?

Either I'm missing something, or that 177M for all of OSS just flat out doesn't add up.