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Commercial Open Source in Europe Verses the US
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| I’ve said this many times: Europe and most of the rest of the world is ahead
| of the US in Open Source adoption. This has been the case since I started
| tracking Linux usage numbers by country in the mid to late 90s. I believe the
| attitude differences I observed at this OSTT reflect a more sophisticated
| view of Open Source than we have today in the US. In the US the Open Source
| nature of the software is almost irrelevant to a company’s buying decision.
| The US buyers want better, cheaper software and a better relationship with
| vendors; all of which Open Source helps create for them. But they are not so
| interested in the source code itself nor in how access to the code created
| those benefits
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http://lmaugustin.typepad.com/lma/2008/09/commercial-open-source-in-europe-verses-the-us.html
Recent:
Open Source Business Conference: Great, we won. So what did we win?
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| That’s what I asked leading open source investor Larry Augustin (pictured
| left; he founded VA Linux, SourceForge, and backed many more) and Harold
| Goldberg, chief executive of Zend, at the InfoWorld Open Source Business
| Conference, which just wrapped up.
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http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/26/open-source-business-conference-great-we-won-so-what-did-we-win/
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