An Economic Basis for Open Standards
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This report was supported by the FLOSSPOLS project, funded under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union, managed by the eGovernment Unit of the European Commission's DG Information Society. Rishab Ghosh ([email protected]) is Programme Leader, FLOSS and Senior Researcher at the United Nations University Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology (UNUMERIT), located at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
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