Acknowledgements and contributions

Many people has contributed in one way or another to the writing of this paper. Among them, let us cite Richard Stallman, and several people of the freesw mail list², which was set up for the discussion of this paper, and is now used also for general discussions about free software issues.

Some contributions from specific people not in the working group are the following:

• Franco Gasperoni provided much of the information regarding ACT and ACT Europe, used in the corresponding business case example.
• Alain Roumiguier provided much of the information regarding Open CASCADE and Matra Datavision, used in the corresponding business case example.

Footnotes

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