ACT: EC FLOSS Study Sections 2-5: Go FLOSS, Innovate, Beat the U.S.

"Last week, we announced our intention to be one of the first to give the European Commission’s FLOSS report the attention it deserves and actually read and analyze the entire 287 page report. Our goal is to go beyond the executive summary and provide a sober analysis of the report and start a real conversation about what it means. As the recent disputes over the report suggest, informed analysis is still sorely needed.

"Today we’ll focus on sections 2 through 5, which include the report’s context, objectives, structure of the project team (something we won’t analyze because we want to judge the value of the team’s ideas, not their backgrounds) and methodology..."

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