With efficiency as its driving goal, a consortium of European research institutions and open source software companies have paired up to manage the complexity of large scale, modular projects by establishing a program called EDOS, Environment for the Development and Distribution of Free Software.
Just what europe needs. Another government program. Free software gets along just fine without help from the government.
If the EU wants to do something for free software, they should stop software patents. That would do more for free (and also non-free) software development than a million government studies.
Just what europe needs. Another government program. Free software gets along just fine without help from the government.
How about this perspective: The EU supports many software projects. This one is ‘free software’. Most others are proprietary. Big deal…
If you’re against the government sponsoring software projects then its a whole different discussion.
Wow, sorry, the bit about cell phones, that’s for the MontaVista article. I got caught up reading both articles at once.
Why are all the postings moderated down?
http://www.osnews.com/rules.php