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Europe Is Falling Behind On Open Source

Posted by Zonk on from the pick-up-the-pace dept.

Superentity writes "Computer Business Review is reporting that an official at the European Commission has called on Europe to take a more proactive approach to open source or risk missing out, and outlined steps that European businesses and governments can take to help open source." From the article: "In the US most of the large companies have clear strategies to increase open source in their product lines...In Asia and Latin America, we see that there are many national and regional projects to develop and to work on open source."

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  1. Jesus... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    If a guy named Jesus cannot convince people to open source route no one can.

  2. Re:if the US is so great by SubTexel · · Score: 1, Funny

    What? Umm...First we had to help you guys in WW1, then WW2.. And now you want us to build Linux computers for you? Sheesh...

  3. They can't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They need to call a continental committee and write it up as an amendement #1,567,804 on page 57,119,328 of their EU Constitution Defining What Rights The Glorious Motherland Of Europe Benevolently Grants It's Cogs^H^H^H^HCitizens. But they are busy now adding the amendment banning women from shaving their under arms or the other one defining the acceptable Pantone colors for cheese wrappers.

  4. Slackers! by chill · · Score: 2, Funny

    You Europeans need to get your FOSS act together! You need to be more like:

    The Finns: that Linus kid seems pretty astute. How about getting him to be a European and do some opens source code?

    The Norwegians: a nice cross-platform widget set and development environment would be perfect if you could whip those Trolls in shape and get them to code!

    The Germans: Once the Trolls start to churn out code, how about putting together a full GUI environment. Screw with all the Americans and start every program with the letter "K" -- they'll go nuts! Oh, and while you're at it, how about a nice distribution based around all of the above? Red Hat can't do everything, you know.

    The French, Polish & Spanish: I think these guys might be able to whip together some decent distros and code.

    I'm probably missing a ton. All those little countries with all those funny languages get so confusing! No wonder you all can't get anything done!

    Oh, and there is this Welsh guy that Red Hat has locked away somewhere. You might convince him to write some kernel code or some such.

    Good luck!

    -Charles

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