Government/Corporate Project Declares Plan to Promote OSS within the EU

“An ambitious initiative that aims to bring open source software
to a new level in Europe hopes to make competition with US
companies more interesting. QualiPSo is a four-year project partly
funded by the EU. Its mission is to ‘bring together the major
players of a new way to use and deploy open source software (OSS),
fostering its quality and trust from corporations and
governments.’

“QualiPSo members include corporations, universities, and public
administrations (PA) of various kinds from 20 countries. The main
industrial players are Mandriva, Atos Origin, Bull, and Engineering
Ingegneria Informatica. While Qualipso founders include
organizations from China and Brazil, the main project focus now is
on Europe…”

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