Here’s another installment in our series of blog posts analyzing the European Commission’s free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) report. In prior posts, we’ve discussed how the report is a call to action for Europe’s policymakers, that FLOSS’s popularity is growing, and that many FLOSS developers live in the EU. [...]
VentureBeat reports that “LegalForce, an online marketplace where patents can be bought, sold or licensed, has launched.” Inc.com writes that “[s]tart-ups […] based in cities and towns with low high-school dropout rates and a high percentage of residents with college educations have greater survival rates than those located in areas [...]
On February 15, ACT hosted an Innovators Network event in Groningen (Netherlands) entitled “Turning your Innovations into a Successful Business”. ACT organized this event together with the ICT Platform Noord, a public-private partnership that aims to stimulate the ICT sector in the North of the Netherlands. It was a busy [...]
Has the European Commission’s Competition arm finally gone too far in its attempts to rein in Microsoft? It may have, based on media coverage of the Commission’s decision to threaten yet another round of fines last week. Echoing the chorus of rivals and professional Microsoft-bashers, Neelie Kroes argued that Microsoft [...]
With regard to the European Commission’s latest actions against Microsoft, the Wall Street Journal observes that “[t]he heart of the matter is revealed in Ms. Kroes's observation that other software makers provide comparable interoperability technologies at no cost. EU antitrust officials make no secret of their preference for the open-source [...]