UK missing golden open source opportunity, finds report

We can't grow here, say open source tech firms

John Leonard
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UK missing golden open source opportunity, finds report

Open source software and services provide more than a quarter of the UK's tech sector value, but companies have to go to the US to grow, finds an OpenUK study

Unlike most of the UK economy, the technology sector is growing, but a significant part of that sector, open source software companies, have to go outside the UK to secure funding. That was a fi...

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