LWN.net Logo

Advertisement

Front, Kernel, Security, Distributions, Development. See your byline here on LWN.net.

Advertise here

EU puts funds toward global research on open source (News.com)

EU puts funds toward global research on open source (News.com)

Posted May 26, 2005 21:17 UTC (Thu) by beejaybee (guest, #1581)
Parent article: EU puts funds toward global research on open source (News.com)

It would be nice if they would donate the fines levied from the Microsoft anti-trust case to this cause. 5% of Microsoft turnover would make $0.8M pale into insignificance!


(Log in to post comments)

EU puts funds toward global research on open source (News.com)

Posted May 26, 2005 22:47 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

FSFE is doing a lot of work on the anti-trust case. It might be possible to have Microsoft be required to publish it's protocols and file formats in a royalty free way.

Copyright © 2012, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds