Post: Commercial Open Source in Europe vs US
This is an interesting post by Larry Augustin on his observations of the differences in perception of Open Source in Europe vs US: http://lmaugustin.typepad.com/lma/2008/09/commercial-open-source-in-europe-verses-the-us.html
Slashdot has this post tagged as 'flamebait' since Augustin concludes that the Europeans (and pretty much the rest of the world) is ahead of the US when it comes to adoption of commercial Open Source. Not having ventured enough internationally (from a professional standpoint), I can't really agree or disagree, but given what I've seen on my travels, I wouldn't really be surprised. Anyone care to weigh in?
Related News Update:
Two open source companies (Novell UK and Sirius) were granted access to UK's educational software sales pipeline. In a traditionally pro-Microsoft country, this is certainly an interesting precedent: Read More.
Third ... Rosenberg says that we are opening our "competing proprietary products long after a successful open source project has eclipsed their proprietary alternatives." He then juxtaposes SPARC vs x86 as an example of this. Fascinating. I didn't know that OpenSPARC was in response to the previously open source x86 project. I must have missed that one.
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