I travelled over to Brussels for a meeting of the NESSI steering committee, to which I have just been appointed; its one of the EU’s NGOs in the IT industry, representing major IT vendors, which advises the commission on its ICT R&D budget. Its a long time since I have been in Brussels, …
EU 10, Microsoft 0
An exciting day in many ways yesterday! The European Court have confirmed the European Commission’s fine on Microsoft for ant-competitive activities. The Guardian have reported it with the head line “European appeal court opens Windows to the world and shakes the superdominant“. …
FLOSS, innovation and competiveness in the EU
While serving on the NESSI sterring committee, I got hold of a copy of “Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies sector in the EU“. There is a press release at Cordis here. and a slideshare version here. …