Innovation gap between EU and US shrinks
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| For the fourth year in a row, the "innovation gap" between the EU
| and the US has shrunk according to the "European Innovation
| Scoreboard" (PDF file) for 2006, which the EU Commission
| published on Thursday.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/85767/from/rss09
With independence (e.g. Open Sourcs software), the innovation gap will
vanish. It seems as though more countries are determined to drive away the
imperialistic nature of the American IT industry. This means less customer
abuse (e.g. doubling the price of an O/S in Britain).
Related:
Trialing the open source franchise model
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| It appears that a group of European suppliers are giving it a go, at
| least on a trial basis.
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| The Open Forum Europe (TOF-e) has been set up to run until the end
| of May to "test the commercial viability of a framework that will
| allow for more confidence and commercial clarity of the whole
| Open Source process".
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/trialing_the_op.html
EU report on FLOSS: "FLOSS saves money"
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070112025016466
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