[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt The US might be busy giving thanks but work life goes on for the rest of us in the ROTW, and comments made today by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for information and society, indicate that perhaps Europe should be taking advantage of the fact the Americans are having a day off to focus on its use of open source and how it could be used to bolster the European economy. According to an announcement by Truffle Capital, Reding has called for a European Strategy for Software “that will allo [...]

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[...] Matthew Aslett of The 451 Group quotes from Viviane Reding, European commissioner for information and society, on Europe’s need to capitalize on its open-source assets: As online software, or software as a service, replaces traditional packaged software, Europe has advantages that give it a “window of opportunity to develop a leadership position in software.” These include a large home base of demand to build on, high levels of qualified talent, and the fact that 70% of open source developers worldwide are of European origin. However, “the window is small and it will soon be closed if we don’t act,” since 90% of the economic benefits of open source are being won by US companies. [...]

[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptThe US might be busy giving thanks but work life goes on for the rest of us in the ROTW, and comments made today by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for information and society, indicate that perhaps Europe should be taking … [...]

[...] Europe’s open source opportunityThe US might be busy giving thanks but work life goes on for the rest of us in the ROTW, and comments made today by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for information and society, indicate that perhaps Europe should be taking … [...]

She’s absolutely right on this, it’s a shame nothing has been put in motion sooner. America, Microsoft and “I only know Microsoft” clones will be all about protectionist measures for the next while, Now it’s payday for those of us who have made heavy personal sacrifices in the short term because we were in IT for the love of it, not just for the money.Now we can eat the hay, and Microsoft and their clones can experience what we went through - financial hardship

[...] http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/22/europes-open-source-opportunity/   [...]

[...] Source analysts commented calling for “Europe’s open source opportunity” and claiming “Europe the leader, not the follower in open source“, bringing [...]

[...] source software can be a means of promoting the European software and services industries. Back in November 2007 Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for information and society called on Europe to build on its [...]

[...] in a November 2007 speech, commissioner for information society and the media Viviane Reding called for the creation of a European Strategy for Software. She pointed out that while 70% of the open source [...]