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Red Hat maps open source activity. France is #1

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:00 pm
by LinuxMint-4
Red Hat maps open source activity. France is #1
By Sean Michael Kerner on April 21, 2009 9:26 AM

http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/20 ... activ.html

From the 'how open is your country' files:

Red Hat today published a new study together with Georgia Tech mapping open source activity across 75 countries. Officially called the Open Source Index (OSI), the final score is made of a number of factors including policies, practices in the Government, Industry, and Community. Topping the list current is France with a score of 1.35. Spain is second at 1.07, Germany third at 1.05.

The United States came in 9th overall according to the study, Canada came in 28th.

Re: Red Hat maps open source activity. France is #1

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:45 am
by MattKingUSA
That's very cool. I use a french distro.

Re: Red Hat maps open source activity. France is #1

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:10 am
by Tsuroerusu
MattKingUSA wrote:That's very cool. I use a french distro.
You mean Mandriva?

I checked where my country, Denmark, is on the list ,and we're number 10, seems very high for a Microsoft colony like us.

Re: Red Hat maps open source activity. France is #1

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:30 am
by MattKingUSA
I do indeed mean Mandriva. I like Mandriva, I just wish that we had as many packages that worked as Ubuntu does. Most things won't even work with Mandriva. Most as in like 3. But whatever. Not to mention the Amazon mp3 downloader. I run Ubuntu in Virtualbox just for amazon mp3. Doom works in ubuntu and not in Mandriva and so on...