Red Hat maps open source activity. France is #1

[I-75]

Red Hat maps open source activity. France is #1
By Sean Michael Kerner on April 21, 2009 9:26 AM

http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/04/red-hat-maps-open-source-activ.html

From the 'how open is your country' files:

Red Hat today published a new study together with Georgia Tech mapping open source activity across 75 countries. Officially called the Open Source Index (OSI), the final score is made of a number of factors including policies, practices in the Government, Industry, and Community. Topping the list current is France with a score of 1.35. Spain is second at 1.07, Germany third at 1.05.

The United States came in 9th overall according to the study, Canada came in 28th.

[samjh]

Interesting.

1. France
2. Spain
3. Germany
4. Australia
5. Finland

I expected US, UK, and Norway to be higher than their positions.

[Bachstelze]

We rock. :D

[Mehall]

Interesting.

1. France
2. Spain
3. Germany
4. Australia
5. Finland

I expected US, UK, and Norway to be higher than their positions.

Norway maybe, but US and UK? No. We have too much proprietary stuff, especially in the UK a lot of the time. We're high, but not that high.

[lovinglinux]

Very interesting.

Brazil came in 12 overall, but the most interesting result in my opinion was Government, which came in 3rd.