451 CAOS Theory: Open Source Tour of Europe: Greece
“It is also unlikely to walk off with any prizes when it comes
to the adoption of open source software, especially since the Greek
government signed a public private partnership agreement (albeit a
non-exclusive one) with Microsoft in 2006 to help implement its
Digital Strategy 2006-2013 plan.“As might be expected, the agreement has been criticized for
limiting local skills, while piracy has also been blamed for
limiting further open source adoption, as well as the relative
immaturity of the IT industry as a whole…”
451 CAOS Theory: Open Source Tour of Europe: Poland
“According to statistics presented by Roberto Galoppini, 2.4% of
visitors to SourceForge are from Poland, a statistic which serves
its purpose of being both interesting and pointless at the same
time.“Also statistically meaningless in terms of open source
adoption, but nonetheless interesting is the news that Polish
deputy prime minister, Waldemar Pawlak, is a user of
PHProjekt…”