What is the best way to promote the creation and adoption of new software and communications technologies? That was the weighty second panel of ACT's day-long innovation session at the Economic Forum 2007 in Krynica, Poland. All panelists agreed that the future of software innovation is a mixed one - [...]
I'm heading to Poland this weekend to speak at the Krynica Economic Forum, the most prominent public policy conference for Central and Eastern Europe. ACT is sponsoring a daylong session on public policy and innovation, on which I've organized four panels: Localizing the Lisbon Strategy – How to Cultivate Innovation [...]
Late last year the European Commission released a report calling for a new industrial policy to ignite report advocated government programs (a la Airbus) based on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS). ACT analyzed the report with a series of blog posts reviewing each section. We found that the report’s analysis is [...]
Are FLOSS developers the future promise of a competitive ICT sector in the EU because they are…cheaper? In Section 7.4, (Skills Development and Employment Generation) the EC’s FLOSS report argues that not only are FLOSSers faster and better than programmers using commercial software, they’re cheaper, too. The study states that [...]
In section 7.3, the EC FLOSS Report tells us that firms working on FLOSS are not only faster, they’re also richer. Geez, faster and richer? Are they better looking too? Yet despite the authors’ assertions, I’m not sure we should be green with FLOSS envy just yet. The authors are [...]