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links for 2007-01-13

• Economic impact of FLOSS on innovation and competitiveness of the EU ICT sector
  Blockbusting report from the European Commission, full of original research and surprising facts. Did you know Sun was the largest contributor to Debian? Page 51 - 3x the contribution of the next largest contributor. Wow.
  (tags: FOSS Europe report Economics politics software Sun)
• EU Commission Study Finds You'll Save Money Switching to FOSS
  Pamela notes that the EU report clearly identifies the fact that OpenOffice.org is a cost savings to almost everyone and that the "retraining" FUD is just that.
  (tags: OpenOffice.org Microsoft opensource EU FOSS Report)
• Free Software by Numbers
  Glynn Moody with more statistics extracted from the EU report. This is going to be a goldmine of statistics.
  (tags: statistics FOSS Europe OpenSource report)
• Cisco lost rights to iPhone trademark last year, experts say
  Maybe not so done and dusted as Cisco would have us believe.
  (tags: Trademark iPhone Apple Cisco legal)