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Is Open Source Different In Europe Than In the US?

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. not only open source by Adolf+Hitroll · · Score: -1, Troll

    but anything else for we are slimmer and enjoy even better sex than you lifeless broke fucking retards...
    but you voted yourselves into it...

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  2. Open source is irrelevant! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's Free Software that matters. (Open source is only a subset of Free software. Irrelevant per se.)

    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

    Goddamn!

  3. yankies don't care about their rigths by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    They just don't care. They renounce they right to privacy (Patriot Act, faulty biometric passports etc.), right to private use (wide acceptance of DRM, legislation like DMCA). Hell, they even buy stuff from companies like Apple, which puts NDA in most ridiculous cases, like eg. Apple Store Rejection Notices.
    So it shouldn't be any surprise at all, that they don't care much about right to modify and reuse source code.

  4. In Europe all Open Source is written in Arabic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Europe all Open Source is written in Arabic.

    The future of Europe is a brown hand pulling a white plug out of the socket.

  5. Re:For shame by omar.sahal · · Score: -1, Troll

    Europe has I think a much higher quality of life

    never been to London then.

  6. Re:For shame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Haha, that must be why Europe has produced third rate poop like StarOffice/OpenOffice that nobody will use even though it's free.

    Even the Canadians managed to create a higher quality office suite.

    This has nothing to do with "quality", eurotard.

  7. We don't have enough capitalism... by tjstork · · Score: 0, Troll

    'm not knocking capitalism, but I think it has been unchecked for far too long.

    I rather think the problem is that we do not have enough capitalism. Socialism and its ideas linger on in the administration of most major American cities and that is why they all are all failing to one degree or another.

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  8. FOSS = FUD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's an oldie but a goodie and completely untrue. It hails back to some really ancient anti-GPL FUD (think Bill Gates and "viral" licensing).

    It's not FUD, it's reality. How many companies make commercial software for Linux? Oh, that's right, hardly any do.

    Sounds like lock-in to me, seeing as your alternatives are limited to FOSS.

    It couldn't have anything to do with the power of marketing over the simple minds of PHBs? Or the FUDspinners like you? Or ignorance of FOSS alternatives?

    Those are very common, if untrue, scapegoats. The market pretty much proves your FUD wrong. If FOSS were so clearly superior, everyone would be using it. As it is, Windows 98 has a larger market share than Linux.

    What the hell is OpenSQL? Is it a fork of MySQL or PostgreSQL? And surely by "real SQL" you don't mean MS's pitiful SQL Server?

    MS-SQL is vastly superior to any FOSS alternative. If you don't think so, you don't work on large databases, and thus have zero frame of reference.

    You're out of your element. STFU, Donny.

    You assume FOSS doesn't work well. It works great, thank you very much. Most people consider putting well built, peer reviewed software in place a huge time and money saver, but if you prefer to wait on hold for tech support for your favorite piece of payware, more power to ya'.

    I don't assume that- I know it. Since "works great" is a relative term, limited to ONLY your personal preference and your select sample of one person, we can safely ignore your "one man's opinion". And, supporting MY opinion is essentially every major corporation on the planet.

    If you have to contact tech support, or have spyware on your server... your problems all lie between the chair and the monitor. It's not Bill Gate's fault you don't know what you are doing.