Continua la discussione da Open Source Economy Act (OSEA per gli amici) alla Commissione Europea:
The European economy is saving around 114 billion euro per year by using open source software solutions. Apart from direct costs savings, other benefits of open source result in reduced project failure and lower costs for code maintenance. Reinvestment of these savings leads to an increase in productivity and efficiency worth at least 342 billion euro a year, according to estimates published by open source researcher Carlo Daffara. “Decidedly not a marginal contribution to the European economy.”