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Comment When I was in Switzerland (Score 1) 399

There were a number of students that were interested in using an open-source business model. Yet they even lacked an idea for a project at that point. Nonetheless, they were in the Open Source Software Engineering course hacking away at various sourceforge projects along with everyone else. None of the Americans particularly cared when business model was used as long as it was viable. The Swiss seemed to have some sort of conception that open source was at higher level morally - which I still don't understand. So, yes, I did see an inclanation in Europe toward open-source regardless whether or not such a model would apply to them.
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IBM Exec Bemoans Lack of Industry-Specific Linux Apps 302

Ian Lamont writes "Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of open source and standards, used his keynote appearance at LinuxWorld to complain about the lack of industry-specific open source apps. Despite some encouraging signs in the educational field with Sakai, Sutor said that he was 'tired of waiting' for specialized applications to appear in other sectors, adding that the proliferation of different licenses — and changing legal requirements for using the same software over time — is holding some businesses back from using open source applications."

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