"The notional value of Europe's investment in free/libre or open source software today is €22bn, representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment, a senior UN researcher will tell an intelligence briefing on open source in Dublin later this week.
"Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht, will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at €36bn and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US..."