Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study
July 19th, 2002
The final report of the FLOSS survey and study sponsored by the IST program is now on-line at: http://floss1.infonomics.nl/finalreport/
This report contains new statistical information about usage, creation and economics of free / open source software, as well as policy surveys and recommendations, mostly related to Europe.
It's quite a lengthy report, packed with some quite interesting results, worth having a look at it. For instance the use of Open Source Software by country: Germany 43.7%, UK 31.5%, Sweden 17.7 %. The Open Source activities of the 25 major software companies: 32% major OS development activities (IBM, HP, Compaq, SAP, CA, Hitachi, Sun, ...), 12% small OS projects (EDS, BMC, Adobe, ...) and 52% no visible OS projects (Microsoft, Oracle, ...)
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