This article from heise.ds (German site, English translation) has put to print something that many of us in the Open Source world have been thinking for a while. That Open Source Software (OSS) may be useful as a tool for keeping development jobs in country. Like it or not, most of the innovation that has occurred in the computer world sense before the dot com boom is a direct or indirect result of OSS. I think this can mainly be attributed to few usage restrictions, lots of available code that already exists, and generally small number of legal hassles involved in the OSS world. Who would have thought that the “evil open source world” (to quote Mr. Gates) would end up being the savor of the America’s tech industry?