" Now they have finally been answered because the Council's
study has escaped into the wild (PDF in French and English). Here
is a quick look. It is embarrassing! Gartner, when asked if there
were any mature public Linux installations in Europe, claimed that
there were none. Michael Silver said, 'I have not spoken to any
sizable deployments of Linux on the desktop and only one or two
StarOffice deployments.' Gartner spread patent and TCO FUD. Also,
the European Patent Office participated in the project, although it
is not an EU institution."