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The Open Source Movement
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| Ghosh goes on to make a much more important and often-overlooked point: that
| when a country goes open source, it gets something much more important than
| free code - it gets a native software industry. The skills needed to install
| and maintain OS software flow out through the society. As he drily says: "the
| open source software community must be regarded as an informal and 'costless'
| skills development environment that provides good training and competitive
| advantages on the labour market."
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008469.html
Rlated:
European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros
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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850
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
Microsoft could face €1.8 billion EC antitrust fine
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| It also appealed against the Commission's demands that it make the protocols
| available to open-source software developers.
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| However, in light of the agreement reached between Microsoft CEO Steve
| Ballmer and Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes on Monday, these appeals
| became redundant.
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http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm?newsid=19483&pagtype=allchandate
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