Star Globalisation Institute to EC: 'Unbundle Microsoft Windows'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Sep 2007 17:31 UTC, submitted by twickline
Windows "Computers in the European Union should be sold without a bundled operating system, according to this submission to the European Commission. It says that the bundling of Microsoft Windows with computers is not in the public interest, and prevents meaningful competition in the operating system market." This is the conclusion of the Globalisation Instute, a think tank located in Brussels. Please note this is not a(n) (official) statement from the European Commission.
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RE: idiots
by Marcellus on Mon 24th Sep 2007 18:37 UTC in reply to "idiots"
Marcellus
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If only one million euros per year was pumped into full-time state-employed OSS developers (e.g. for Linux), that would be 20 well-paid full-time developers to boost Linux to the top, establishing a useful alternative for the end-user.


If only 20 full-time paid developers was enough to establish Linux as a viable and useful alternative, it would have been peanuts to companies like IBM to get that done.
No, you're going to need a whole lot developers than that, and a lot of time. Not to mention more applications that can actually compete with non-open source offerings.

If you're going to spent €1M on anything, spend it on usability experts, design experts, documentation experts, etc.
I.e. spend the money where it would actually make a difference rather than on more developers that don't make much of a difference.

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