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 [...]
You can tell by the look on their faces. Our friends over at Business Europe just released their "European Reform Barometer Spring 2007" this week and the result will be suprising to many. They have even provided a handy chart of EU 25 and Accession Countries based on the categories [...]
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, [...]