Secret EU Open Source Migration Study Leaked

Posted by kdawson on Friday May 15, 2009 @12:45AM from the why-they-stick-with-office dept.

Elektroschock writes "For 4 years MEP Marco Cappato tried to get access to the EU Council's 2005 open source migration study because he is a member of a responsible IT oversight committee in the European Parliament. His repeated requests for access were denied. Now they have finally been answered because the Council's study has escaped into the wild (PDF in French and English). Here is a quick look. It is embarrassing! Gartner, when asked if there were any mature public Linux installations in Europe, claimed that there were none. Michael Silver said, 'I have not spoken to any sizable deployments of Linux on the desktop and only one or two StarOffice deployments.' Gartner spread patent and TCO FUD. Also, the European Patent Office participated in the project, although it is not an EU institution."

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Re:As an European who's been using linux desktop.. by jernejk · 2009-05-15 01:57 · Score: 0, Troll

And yet linux fanboys mod me troll. Do as you are pleased, but that's precisely what's wrong with linux. Point to a problem and you are either a troll or you can "fix it yourself". Like, you know, GIMP USER INTERFACE STILL SUCKS. But developers surely know waaaayyy better what's good for the user.