A study by European IT security experts suggests that the EU should also fund or participate in the development of open source software to ensure end-to-end encryption solutions. Using open source is not a universal remedy, they state, but it is an “important ingredient in an EU strategy for more security and technological independence.” The experts say support for open source will increase the EU’s technological independence.
A second study for this committee meeting argues that the use of open source computer operating systems and applications reduces the risk of privacy intrusion by mass surveillance.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/ep-study-%E2%80%9Ceu-should-finance-key-open-source-tools%E2%80%9D
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Sunday April 26 2015, @11:51AM
1) That Milton Friedman said it doesn't prove it right.
2) The sentence as quoted says "usually", thus even Milton Friedman accepted that sometimes the government solution is an improvement.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.