[Facil] impact du libre

Marc Angles marco at koumbit.org
Jeu 8 Fév 11:12:17 EST 2007


Le Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:30:34 +0100,
"aline credeville" <aline.credeville at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Un rapport de la communauté européenne concernant l'impact du libre sur la
> compétitivité et l'innovation.
> http://www.flossimpact.eu/

Merci Aline. 

Les deux derniers points du résumé me parraissent particulièment interressant. Il serait temps que les 'décideurs' prennent en compte ces questions et comprennent que cela peut devenir des enjeux electoraux.

Ici le petit résumé qui apparait sur la page d'accueil: 

Open Source key for ICT Competitiveness: European Commission

The European Commission has released a study of the economic impact of Free/Libre or Open Source Software (FLOSS) on the European ICT sector. It was prepared by a consortium of research institutions led by UNU-MERIT's Rishab Aiyer Ghosh.

Looking at the impact of FLOSS on European competitiveness in ICTs, the study finds that such software is of great importance to the digital industry in Europe and several other parts of the world. It has already reached considerable market share in several fields, including web servers and operating systems. A large share of public and private sector organizations use at least some FLOSS.

Findings include:

    * FLOSS applications are top rung products in terms of market share in several markets.
    * The existing base of quality FLOSS applications with reasonable quality control and distribution would cost firms almost Euro 12 billion to reproduce internally. This code base has been doubling every 1824 months over the past eight years.
    * The notional value of Europe’s investment in FLOSS software today is Euro 22 billion (36 billion in the US) representing 20.5% of total software investment (20% in the US)
    * While the US has an edge in large FLOSS-related businesses, Europe is the leading region in terms of globally active FLOSS software developers, and leads in terms of global project leaders, followed closely by North America. Asia and Latin America face disadvantages at least partly due to language barriers, but may have an increasing share of developers active in local communities.
    * By providing a skills development environment valued by employers and retaining a greater share of value addition locally, FLOSS can encourage the creation of SMEs and jobs.
    * Defined broadly, FLOSS-related services could reach a 32% share of all IT services by 2010, and the FLOSS-related share of the economy could reach 4% of European GDP by 2010.
    * Though FLOSS provides ample opportunities for Europe, it is threatened by increasing moves in some policy circles to support regulation that seeks to protect old business models of creative industries, making it harder to develop new ways of doing business.

The study, which also provides policy recommendations, was commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry.

The full study, including a short executive summary, can be downloaded from the official website of the European Commission at:

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf (pdf, 1.8 MB).

> Un rapport en anglais est téléchargeable. Je n'ai pas encore eu le temps de
> le dire (suis au boulot), mais si quelqu'un a le temps d'y jeter un coup
> d'oeil et de signaler des éléments intéressants, ce serait pas mal :-)
> Sur ce, excellente journée à tous.
> a.
> 





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