John Powell

Large European Enterprises Increasingly Accept Open Source

Denis,
Great article. I believe that those Euro politicians are not pushing OS for political reasons, its for sound economic reasons. You see the value of OS is that the code can (and clearly many don't want to do this) be altered/customised by the User rather that the software author. This means economic value is built close to the customer in entities not owned by the original author. This ultimately generates higher vale in the local economy rather than repatriating profits to a foreign parent. They say the 2 enduring legacies of the British Empire were the English language and association football, neither of which would have flourished with a proprietary license model but have generated enormous economic value in their dispersion, forking and value to the local economy.