Archive for January, 2007

Open source is good for the economy

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Europe’s lawmakers should “correct” policies that “implicitly or explicitly” favour the use of proprietary software, according to a newly published report from the European Commission (EC) mentioned in The Register today
The EC commissioned Netherlands based UNU-MERIT to investigate the “economic impact of “FLOSS” in Europe”. The researchers found open source software is worth around €2bn every year to the European economy.

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