The Free Software Foundation Europe is calling on European Free Software businesses to participate in a survey of business attitudes towards the acceptability of including patents in industry standards.
This survey is a key component of a study that will play the major role in the EC's reform of standardisation policy. It is open until September 17.
Read more »Survey finds only 2 of 87 departments are conforming to federal open document regulations. Research published this week suggests that the majority of federal government departments in Germany are ignoring requirements to implement Open Standards.
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"I got an e-mail this morning publishing the results of a Maemo and Openmoko community survey I had answered with 1232 others some months ago. The survey was run by ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich. Here are some notes I made." (C) Article's author
Read more »While two thirds of enterprise companies have some degree of interest in open-source, far fewer indicate its adoption is a high priority, according to a Forrester survey of 2,252 software decision-makers.
Read more »So the latest IDC quarterly server report is saying that shipments of servers with Linux on them are on a downturn, compared to shipments of servers with Windows Server on them.
Game over, Linux, you are defeated.
Not.
Read more »The LimeSurvey Development Team announces her new version - LimeSurvey Version 1.50. This international OpenSource-Project made big improvements in the last year and is proud to release this new version.
Read more »This is a survey that claims 43% of companies are /already/ using FOSS. Judge for yourself...
Read more »"German companies are world leaders in the use of Open Source software. In a survey of IT procurement officers from Germany, Great Britain, and the US/Canada, 59 percent of those in Germany said that they use OSS in their companies. The figures were far lower in Great Britain and the US/Canada at 48 and 38 percent, respectively."
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"So why do computer users take time away from their own lives and work to help people around the world whom they don't even know?"
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