[wos] Muenster Economics Studies on Open Source

[Armin Medosch]

Hi,

was at a conference yesterday in brussels called crosstalks which 
meant to  stimulate a dialogue between the proprietary and open 
source model. there was a representative from microsoft. in his talk 
he quoted both the muenster study and another study done by 
University of Klagenfurt in austria (btw. thats also where haider is 
local governor). afterwards i approached him and asked him directly if 
microsoft had financed those studies. he said that microsoft had 
funded the study that was behind the muenster report - so no 
investigative journalism needed here - but maintained that the 
klagenfurt thing was independent (whatever that means). 

apart from that there was a quite interesting presentation by the 
director of the ICT   department of the federal government of belgium, 
a mr. strickxx who seems to be doing a lot for open source in his 
department. very pragmatic of course and appearently he was a Sun 
man for 10 years before moving into government service. if there is 
any interest in getting in contact with him i can dig out his name card.

best
armin



On 10 Dec 03, at 22:58, Volker Grassmuck wrote:

> Hi Rishab, hi Georg,
> 
> two studies from the Muenster Institute for Computational Economics 
> (MICE !) are making waves these days that no doubt have already 
> reached you. One is what seems to me a quite refined version of the 
> "the monetized market is the most efficient mechanism for serving 
> 'customer sovereignty'" rant. [1] The other poses Microsoft not a 
> monopoly but as an enabler for a wide variety of idependent economic 
> activity. [2]
> 
> This is part of a major roll-back and has to be refuted with the 
> highest authority in economics that the free software can muster. And 
> a clear statement from the free software industries. And maybe some 
> investigative journalism unveiling that this stuff is paid for by MS.
>  
> What can we do about that? Who could write a counter-study?
> 
> best
> Volker
> 
> 
> [1] Open-Source Software: An Economic Assessment
> http://mice.uni-muenster.de/mers/mers4-OpenSource_en.pdf
> http://mice.uni-muenster.de/mers/mers4-OpenSource_de.pdf
> 
> [2] The Impact of Microsoft Deutschland GmbH on the German IT Sector
> http://mice.uni-muenster.de/mers/mers3-EconomicImpact_en.pdf
> http://mice.uni-muenster.de/mers/mers3-EconomicImpact_de.pdf
> 
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