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

[Posted May 26, 2005 by cook]

News.com looks into a grant from the European Union for the support of open-source software around the world. "The newly approved funding--660,00 euros, or $825,594--is for the two-year FLOSSWorld project, Europe's first initiative to support international research and policy development on "free/libre/open source software." Previous FLOSS projects, starting as early as 2001, have concentrated on the use of open source in Europe alone."
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EU puts funds toward global research on open source (News.com)

Posted May 26, 2005 21:17 UTC (Thu) by beejaybee (guest, #1581) [Link] (1 responses)

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!

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.

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

Posted May 27, 2005 15:38 UTC (Fri) by ultrotter (subscriber, #7118) [Link] (1 responses)

Shouldn't it be 660,000? If it was really 660.00 it wouldn't be a great news! ;)

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

Posted Jun 6, 2005 3:21 UTC (Mon) by del (subscriber, #380) [Link]

Europeans use the period to group numbers where we use the comma. Likewise, the Europeans use a comma for the radix where we use the period. So in Europe 1.234,56 is 1,234.56 to us. Using the European format was a great way to keep other people's mitts off my calculator in college!


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