EC figure accuses IT Giants of exploiting Open Source

Jesus Villasante, a senior figure at the EuropeanCommission, has launched an outspoken attack on severalmajor American IT firms, accusing them of exerting too muchinfluence on the progress of the open-source community.Villasante said that big companies such as IBM, HP, and Sunare just using the open-source community as subcontractorsrather than encouraging the community to develop independentcommercial products.