{"id":9879,"date":"2021-06-02T11:17:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T11:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=9879"},"modified":"2021-06-02T11:17:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T11:17:54","slug":"france-the-state-of-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=9879","title":{"rendered":"France – the state of open source"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

\"CNLL<\/p>\r\n

In France the Conseil National des logiciel libres (CNLL – National Free Software Council) has just published its 2020\/2021 survey<\/a> (PDF<\/acronym><\/a>) into free and open source software in France.<\/p>\r\n

The report’s findings can be summarised as follows.<\/p>\r\n

Free and open source companies are typically micro-businesses (59%) and SMEs<\/acronym> (35.1%). They are generally well established youngish businesses with an average age of 11.5 years. They have a very varied customer base in all sectors and exports account for over 20% of their turnover, as opposed to 16.7% in the digital sector.<\/p>\r\n

Besides service activities, there has been a move from solutions-based financial models (invoicing for use, sale of licences) whereas 57.1% are software producers, playing a vital ecosystem role.<\/p>\r\n

During the Covid crisis, the majority (64.6%) of companies reported stable or increasing activities, with 82.8% of managers saying they were confident about the future of their companies and 61.1% seeking to recruit staff. However, 53.7% are worried about the French economy over the long term, particularly as regards the durability of B2B<\/acronym> customers.<\/p>\r\n

Although it has been recommended by the Secretariat-General for National Defence and Security (SGDSN) to reassert digital sovereignty, only 29.3% of respondents think that France is implementing an open source industrial strategy to counter the Big Tech companies and 64.6% of them believe the powers that be are not giving sufficient encouragement to open source as provided for by law, particularly in respect of public sector procurement.<\/p>\r\n

Plus de 80% des entreprises sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 engag\u00e9es dans une d\u00e9marche \u00e9thique libre et responsable vis-\u00e0-vis de crit\u00e8res sp\u00e9cifiques : la moiti\u00e9 d\u2019entre elles a d\u00e9j\u00e0 formalis\u00e9 de tels engagements et l\u2019autre se d\u00e9clare pr\u00eate \u00e0 le faire.<\/p>\r\n

Businesses are very involved in the ecosystem and contribute to more than 35 organisations. Furthermore, 9.7% report that their region has an open source-based digital strategy which has tangible results, albeit with marked regional disparties.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In France the Conseil National des logiciel libres (CNLL – National Free Software Council) has just published its 2020\/2021 survey (PDF) into free and open source software in France. The report’s findings can be summarised as follows. Free and open source companies are typically micro-businesses (59%) and SMEs (35.1%). They are generally well established youngish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,9],"tags":[19,12,11,23],"class_list":["post-9879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9879"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9902,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9879\/revisions\/9902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}