Assessing the Cost of an Open Source Project

Ever wondered how much effort it would take you to duplicate a particular open source project? Check out ohloh, where you can feed in information about a particular project and let their software tell you how many man-hours or how many US dollars it would take to reproduce. Projects can be compared, project "stacks" can be made (for example, a LAMP stack) for cases where projects sit on top of other projects, and so on.

 Someone put my husband's Maia Mailguard project on there and he was I think a bit surprised but pleased at the results. 

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