[Fsfe-ie] Economic impact of FLOSS

Malcolm Tyrrell malcoh0l at yahoo.ie
Tue Jan 16 11:13:21 CET 2007


``The EC commissioned Netherlands based UNU-MERIT to investigate the
"economic impact of "FLOSS"* in Europe". The researchers found open
source software is worth around €2bn every year to the European
economy.''

Article about it on the register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/15/open_source_2bn/

The report:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf

Malcolm.

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