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[News] Europe to Fund Project That Spurs Free Software Adoption

  • Subject: [News] Europe to Fund Project That Spurs Free Software Adoption
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:29:18 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
EU support for open source software

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| An EU-funded consortium will address one of the perceived barriers for the 
| adoption of open source software and prove once and for all that software 
| which is free and publishes its source code, is capable of outperforming 
| anything else on the market.   
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http://ec.europa.eu/research/headlines/news/article_07_06_29_en.html


Related:

EU report on FLOSS: "FLOSS saves money"

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070112025016466


Source of the revolution

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| According to Ghosh, the notional value of Europe's investment in
| free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) today is e22bn,
| representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment.
| Spending on OSS stands at e36bn and accounts for 20pc of software
| expenditure in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8105

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