[ Thanks to Brendan Scott for this
link. ]
“Abstract
“In this report we look at the current consistently poor
performance of Australia in the ICT industry, as identified by
analysis from the Centre or Strategic Economic Studies and note the
correlation between these poor results and the historical reliance
on the incumbent, closed source, model for the commercialisation of
software. We identify one instance in which failure to move to a
functionally equivalent open source product has significant costs
for Australia and, in that example, quantify those costs at $430
million [US$300,382,400/€249,361,000] per year. This paper
identifies an alternative model for ICT commercialisation and
discusses some potential impacts…”
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