I am not at all surprised that the study by Kooths et al comes to this conclusion. According to the Heise-newsticker http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/tol-10.12.03-002/ the study was commissioned by - who would have guessed - Microsoft Germany! Michael
Wouter Vanden Hove wouter.vanden.hove@pandora.be schrieb:
Just noticed 2 recent "academic" papers at http://mice.uni-muenster.de/mers/index.htm
Open-Source Software: An Economic Assessment Open Source-Software: Eine volkswirtschaftliche Bewertung
The Impact of Microsoft Deutschland GmbH on the German IT Sector Die Bedeutung der Microsoft Deutschland GmbH für den deutschen IT-Sektor
Their conclusion in short: Microsoft good, Free Software Bad. Does anyone know something about the authors?
w.