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Story: Criticism mounts over Birmingham's Linux project

Posted by: Sothis (Tuesday 21 November 2006, 5:41 PM)

Open Source debate barely started

The soon-to-be-published European Commission funded study into the Economics of Open Source (known as FOSS in Continental Europe) will show unequivocally that the 'results' publicised so far in the UK (Newham and related 'case-studies') are quantitively and qualitively *entirely* different to the results from the rest of Europe. Even more to the point, they are entirely different to the UK Case Studies of *successful* Open Source projects which do not appear to have received much column at all yet.

There is clearly something quite different going on in the UK. An interesting question is what that might be?

The Open Source debate is only just getting started here...