Linux projects more ambitious and developers better paid! [LWN.net]

Linux projects more ambitious and developers better paid!

Posted Jul 16, 2003 21:39 UTC (Wed) by kfox (guest, #4767)
Parent article: Analyst: embedded Linux costs more

It seems the author found that Linux
projects are bigger than Windows projects.
Companies work on them longer and assign
more engineers to them.

The author also found that engineers
working on Linux projects earn a higher
salary.

From this he divined that Windows is
the cheaper platform.

Here's a different hypothesis: Companies
are more likely to choose Linux for large,
ambitious projects -- just the kind of
projects that need the best people.

- Ken

P.S. The dollar figures for maintenance
and support are so tremendously skewed
in Microsoft's favor that IMHO either
the author has misrepresented his numbers,
or Microsoft is yet again using monopoly
profits to dominate other markets.

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Linux projects more ambitious and developers better paid!

Posted Jul 17, 2003 9:53 UTC (Thu) by davidl (guest, #12156) [Link]

Yep, that's what I thought when I finally got to read it. I wonder how many more of these 'studies' we're going to get, because I'm sick of them to be honest.