Oddly, it is the 1st Anniversary of the EU’s publication of their report, “Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU”. In this report, they identified Sun as the single largest corporate publisher of open source code in the world …
We’re all in Europe now!
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. …