Is Open Source Different In Europe Than In the US?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @02:59AM from the i-hear-gravity-is-heavier-over-there-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The first Europe Open Source Think Tank just concluded and Larry Augustin posted some interesting observations on open source in Europe versus the US. Essentially, he says that users in Europe care more about the open source nature of a product than do US users. US users are just trying to save a buck while European users actually care about access to the source code. Do Slashdot readers observe the same thing? Are the reasons for using open source software different in other parts of the world as well?"

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Re:Get real by wigaloo · 2008-09-24 03:51 · Score: 0, Redundant

All of which is compiled using gcc, written by Richard Stallman, an American. His Free Software movement predates most other significant open contributions.

Look, I get your point, and am not trying to run down the considerable contributions made around the world to F/OSS software. However, to subjectively declare that Europeans somehow care more about the source code than folks in the US is just plain silly.