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[News] Open Business Organisation of Europe Formed to Promote Free Software

  • Subject: [News] Open Business Organisation of Europe Formed to Promote Free Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:16:23 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
OBOOE Makes a Noise about Open Source

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| One of the reason that open source has yet to make a huge impact on business 
| in Europe is that there are relatively few ways that it can make its voice 
| heard. The newly-formed Open Business Organisation of Europe (OBOOE) aims to 
| change that...   
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=360&blogid=14


Related:

Source of the revolution

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| According to Ghosh, the notional value of Europe's investment in
| free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) today is e22bn,
| representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment.
| Spending on OSS stands at e36bn and accounts for 20pc of software
| expenditure in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8105


European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros

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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850

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