One factor in the choice of registrars is going to be
public support. So I’d like you to add your voice. Go to
www.invisible.net and click on the blue dot. This will take you to a page
at not.invisible.net where you can add your comments, or get more
information about other ways you can provide support to the bid by the
Internet Multicasting Service and the Internet Software Consortium
(both nonprofits) to manage the .org registry. [
.org is a public trust.
]
The final report of the FLOSS survey and study sponsored by the IST program is now on-line at: http://floss1.infonomics.nl/finalreport/
This report contains new statistical information about usage,
creation and economics of free / open source software, as well as
policy surveys and recommendations, mostly related to Europe.
It’s quite a lengthy report, packed with some quite interesting
results, worth having a look at it. For instance the use of Open Source
Software by country: Germany 43.7%, UK 31.5%, Sweden 17.7 %. The Open
Source activities of the 25 major software companies: 32% major OS
development activities (IBM, HP, Compaq, SAP, CA, Hitachi, Sun, …),
12% small OS projects (EDS, BMC, Adobe, …) and 52% no visible OS
projects (Microsoft, Oracle, …)