Talk:Software economics

I very much doubt there is any truth behind this article. In *any* part of it. No source for the numbers, the number of lines per developer per year sounds made up. It certainly doesn't match my experience, and what is meant by "commercial developer" should be explained, possible it should be splitted by category. The "free software" argument sounds illogical to me, and its just that: an argument. It would just be better to describe the various business models around free software. Possibly, stating their distribution, and describe propertary to free software transitions. (sorry my English.) --85.240.90.146 (talk) 18:59, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

very little material for such an important topic
There's a book on software engineering economics that seems to have little more than comic value. It's sad to see this article in such poor shape. An obvious place to develop it would be around the concept of entrepreneurialism, since that's basically the root of most current activity in the area. It should be obvious to many that once software projects exit the entrepreneurial phase that it becomes very hard to understand (either by reading code, or by interpreting financial decisions made by stakeholders). There's a ton of dogma (Yourdon, ...) that seems fairly uninformed by economic theory. Lots of crap happens,... but the best question is why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by BrainRepair (talk • contribs) 23:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)