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. [...]
Based on our prior post that analyzes Section 6 of the European Commission's FLOSS report, we know that there is a growing and in many cases strong private and public sector demand for certain FLOSS applications. This leads the authors to the question of supply? Where are the FLOSS developers? [...]
In our last blog post, we discussed how the European Commission’s FLOSS report is a call to action for Europe’s policymakers. The ambitious proposals in the report aim to do for Europe’s ICT industry, what the Airbus project did for Europe’s aeronautics industry. If you’re going to have industrial policy, [...]
Last week, we announced our intention to be one of the first to give the European Commission’s FLOSS report the attention it deserves and actually read and analyze the entire 287 page report. Our goal is to go beyond the executive summary and provide a sober analysis of the report [...]