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Krugle Blog: A final note: The code search plugin above is language-neutral, in contrast with the plugin by philroche we’ve mentioned before, which searches only C#. Specifying the language in the plugin is pretty cool, and not difficult if you want to make one yourself following philroche’s example, but we wanted to start with a plugin for general use. (via Cosmos)

  Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters: Hans Kwint writes "The European Commission's enterprise and industry department has just released the final draft of what could be the biggest academic interdisciplinary study on the economic / innovative impacts of free/libre/open source software (1.8-MB PDF). The study was done by an international consortium led by the United Nations University / University of Maastricht. (via Cosmos)

tomas gonsorcik: But one has only to examine an economic transaction closely, as Pierre Bourdieu does here for the buying and selling of houses, to see that these abstract assumptions cannot explain what happens in reality.As Bourdieu shows, the market is constructed by the state, which can decide, for example, whether to promote private housing or collective provision. And the individuals involved in the transaction are immersed in symbolic constructions which constitute, in a strong sense, the value of houses, neighbourhoods and towns. (via Cosmos)

Web Host Industry Review | theWHIR Blogs, A community of expert perspectives: A team of international researchers recently completed a study on the economic impact of free/open source software (click here for 287 page PDF report). The authors determined that current free/open source code base (which has been doubling every 18-24 months) would cost 131,000 person years and over 12 billion Euros to reproduce. (via Cosmos)

warsystems: of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences International Institute of Infonomics (June 2002): Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands Berlecon Research GmbH, Berlin, Germany (link) Blomqvist Ulf, Eriksson Lars-Erik, Findahl Olle, Selg HÃ¥kan, Wallis Roger (November 2005): Trends in downloading and filesharing of music, Royal Institute of Technology. (link) Danard Benoît, Jeanneau Caroline (Mai 2004): Le téléchargement de (via Cosmos)

  Port 25: In the two studies (Ghosh in 2002 and Lakhani (PDF) in 2004””both are available online), although slightly different sets of questions were asked, by a notable margin the leading responses were “Learn and develop new skills” and “Share knowledge and skills” (Ghosh) and (via Cosmos)

 [Ictlogy.net] ICTlogy » Annual ICT4D Postgraduate Symposium (session 4): Just before starting the session, Dorothea Kleine encourages the audience to write ICT4D academic articles to be published in the Information Technologies and International Development Journal which, let’s remember, is Open Access since WSIS Tunis 2005.

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