<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/395b71cb-08d2-4619-87aa-0b2786de9052/9900371F-D377-4ACE-B264-0BFCF694C787/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ostatic.com/blog/the-european-commissions-open-source-friendly-stance-draws-fire" href="http://ostatic.com/blog/the-european-commissions-open-source-friendly-stance-draws-fire" style="font-size: 11px;">ostatic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ostatic.com/blog/the-european-commissions-open-source-friendly-stance-draws-fire">The European Commission is out with a white paper, d<A href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/standards/ict_index_en.htm">ownloadable as a PDF here</A>, that calls for much broader and more standardized adoption of open source software across Europe. <A href="http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2009/070609-open-source-bias-cheered-booed-in.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news">As IDG News Service notes</A>, the white paper is getting both positive and negative reactions</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ostatic.com/blog/the-european-commissions-open-source-friendly-stance-draws-fire"><P>Jonathan Zuck of the ACT asserts, in his opposition statement to the European Commission's white paper, that "innovative startups that rely on patent protection" will be hurt by the EC's stance. It's just as easy, though, to argue that welcoming open source in European governments will boost many commercial open source providers, both new and established. Government contracts help the revenues and the funding prospects for commercial open source companies, which can often make money from supporting free software that saves governments money.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9900371F-D377-4ACE-B264-0BFCF694C787/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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