Open source is good for the economy: report

  2007-01-16 11:30:02
Europe's lawmakers should"correct" policies that"implicitly or explicitly" favour the use of proprietary software, according to a newly published report from the European Commission (EC). 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. 
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