Open source worth €2bn a year

A European Union commissioned report has stated that Open source is worth €2bn to the European economy per annum, and has called for an end to use of proprietary software - which reads as a dig towards the big vendors such as Microsoft, who have made a fortune in locking companies and countries into their proprietary products ... with the occasional run-in with EU along the way.

Anything that ensures that the collaborative 'for the better good' way of Open source gets its fair hearing and promoted as much as possible by governments (who are also supposed to be acting for the better good) must be encouraged, and backed up by legislation wherever possible.

The same report also has some heartening advice for the computer science students of the future, and how they should be taught:

"The report also recommends that technical education should be vendor neutral. Students should be taught skills, not applications, and should be encouraged to participate in open source communities."