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ELCE: Free software strategies for business

ELCE: Free software strategies for business

Posted Nov 27, 2008 11:35 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
Parent article: ELCE: Free software strategies for business

4% of European GDP coming from free software by 2010

Let's pretend that the analyst didn't simply made up a number, but actually did some analysis. I wonder how this 4% number was reached (4% of the EU GDP comes from Sweden and Portugal, just to have something to compare). I have a feeling that if a company uses some free software product somewhere, all of its income(?) is included in this 4%, even though only the internal wiki is free software...


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