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Video Message from @NeelieKroesEU during the Open Source Conference 2012
A videomessage from Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda during the Open Source Conference 2012 on 14th of December, 2012. #39;ICT is developing at a breath-taking pace. From the incredible rise of smartphones, to the opportunities of cloud computing: there are ever more innovative products, services and models out there. The best thing about the Internet is that it is open. And for new technologies and new software, too, there are huge benefits to open source and open standards. When products or components are based on non-standard, proprietary technologies, it #39;s harder to make systems work together, harder to modify and cusomise them, and harder to change providers. Plus, it #39;s harder for new, smaller suppliers to enter the market. That damages competition; it means extra costs; and it means users can #39;t get maximum value from new innovations. In fact, the cost of having closed ICT systems is estimated at several hundred million euros a year; for the public sector alone. No wonder open source is taking off. For infrastructure software, for example, collaborative development is delivering software that #39;s best-in-class. And major web players are increasingly relying on GNU and Linux. In the Commission, here are three things we #39;re doing to support #39;Open Source #39;. First, we #39;re supporting open source software through the Seventh Frankework Programma - the EU #39;s investment in research and innovation. Take the Open Nebula project - a new platform to build and manage ...From:LenDJ PRViews:0 0ratingsTime:03:36More inHowto Style

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