In comparison to virtually any other design work. The most expensive commercial buildings ever constructed are in the neighborhood of 5-15 billion USD. Developi

In comparison to virtually any other design work. The most expensive commercial buildings ever constructed are in the neighborhood of 5-15 billion USD. Developing a Linux distribution from scratch would probably exceed $10 billion in developer costs [1]. Just think about that. Linux, not even the largest codebase known, compares with the most expensive civil engineering projects in history. Code is phenomenally expensive. [1] https://www.linux.com/publications/estimating-total-cost-linux-distribution https://www.linux.com/publications/estimating-total-cost-lin...