apluscw wrote: >>another (but older) example. My ISP (ukfsn.org) is founded on that >>principle. It recently announced funding students to develop > > specific > >>open source projects. >> >>ian > > > The Europeans are clearly one of the leaders in the Open Source > movement, though I believe that is also indicative of the more > collaborative nature of businesses and business partnerships in > Europe. Many cultures have a "all for me, nothing for anyone else and > its all about me, me, me" business philosophy. That is certainly true > on this side of the pond. >
I tend to agree. From what I have seen of US corporate culture, it is very different from that in Europe. That said, some of the major players in open source are in the US - RedHat, Sun, Novell, not to mention the Free Software Foundation itself. The other thing to remember is that a lot of open source code is developed in universities all over the world so it really is a world wide movement -jeux sans frontieres, as the French say. Ian
