Large academic international interdisciplinary study on FLOSS gets the real facts (LXer)

[Posted January 17, 2007 by ris]

Hans Kwint looks at a final draft of a study on the economic / innovative impacts of Free and Open Source Software. "The European Commission's enterprise and industry department just released the final draft of what could be the biggest academic interdisciplinary study on the economic / innovative impacts of FLOSS*. The study was done by an international consortium, led by the United Nations University / University of Maastricht's (NL,EU) department of innovation; UNU-MERIT for short. The study was prepared by senior researcher Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, who did a tremendous amount of FLOSS studies the last few years, amongst them on FLOSSpols and FLOSSWorld."