In a well done video, released in mid-December, Neelie Kroes, the European Commission’s Vice President for the Digital Agenda, articulates the benefits of open source software and open standards.
Her remarks are especially potent, given not only her leadership in her current role, but having also served as Commissioner in charge of EU competition/antitrust policy where she oversaw the European Union Microsoft competition case.
In her remarks, she identifies the downside of relying on proprietary standards, which cost the European economy “several hundred million Euros per year” and damages competition…Read more at OpenSource.com
