
"The European Commission has
taken steps to promote the use of open source systems and software in the public sector. It has selected a consortium led by Unisys Belgium to create and manage the Open Source Observatory and Repository, the company announced. Other members of the consortium are the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, consultancy GOPA Cartermill, and the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid. They will provide an internet service and portal enabling European administrations to centrally store and share the software code of their open source applications and exchange open source knowledge."
Member since:
2005-07-06
Sadly, European Commission != European Parliament.
I just don't get how one can let those jerks in the parliament decide about software patents. I'm not sure whether half of them really know about the subject. We're not speaking about speed limits of highways here.