Red Hat’s open source map
Mon, May 4, 2009
Red Hat has created a map illustrating open source activity around the world. Countries are ranked on a scale of 1 (high) to 75 (low) for its open source credentials. New Zealand comes in at 21 overall. Link comes via Flowing Data.
Tags: map, open source, Red Hat, visualisation
I note that in most countries I looked at (NZ, USA, Australia), Government tends to be much more lowly ranked than the country as a whole, and industry. I guess that suggests conservatism on the part of government. eg NZ: Overall = 21, Government = 45)
However, I note that in several European countries, government use of OSS is very high. eg in France (1, 1), UK (6, 7).
I don’t know what the implications of that high OSS use in Europe are. But its an interesting observation to me!
Today I forwarded this page to Radio NZ as Kathryn Bell on 9 to Noon grilled Microsoft over their monopoly supply position to government.