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=== Value === The cost of developing all of the packages included in Debian 5.0 Lenny (323 million lines of code) has been estimated to be about {{US$|8 billion|link=yes}}, using one method based on the [[COCOMO]] model.<ref name="measuring-lenny">Amor, J. J.; Robles, G.; González-Barahona, J. M.; Rivas, F.: [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jesus_Gonzalez-Barahona/publication/229014230_Measuring_Lenny_the_size_of_Debian_5.0/links/0deec5200b5b4b35e5000000.pdf Measuring Lenny: the size of Debian 5.0] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324060631/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jesus-Gonzalez-Barahona/publication/229014230_Measuring_Lenny_the_size_of_Debian_50/links/0deec5200b5b4b35e5000000/Measuring-Lenny-the-size-of-Debian-50.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324060631/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jesus-Gonzalez-Barahona/publication/229014230_Measuring_Lenny_the_size_of_Debian_50/links/0deec5200b5b4b35e5000000/Measuring-Lenny-the-size-of-Debian-50.pdf |archive-date=2021-03-24 |url-status=live |date=March 24, 2021 }} ResearchGate</ref> {{As of|2024|5}}, Black Duck [[Open Hub]] estimated that the current [[codebase]] (74 million lines of code) would cost about {{US$|1.6 billion}} to develop, using a different method based on the same model.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Estimated Cost |url=https://www.openhub.net/p/debian/estimated_cost |access-date=2024-05-03 |publisher=Black Duck [[Open Hub]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Package: ohcount (3.0.0-8 and others) |url=https://packages.debian.org/stable/ohcount |access-date=2024-05-03 |publisher=Debian}}</ref>
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