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.
"Remember that you write code for three audiences: The computer, for whom it must be correct, your muse, for which it it must be elegant, and the poor schmuck who has to modify it, for whom it must be comprehensible"
Daniel R. Killoran