Is the UK really a laggard in open source? Red Hat denies there is any problem.

"Red Hat does more business in the UK than in any other European country," Malcolm Herbert, senior manager of consulting practice at Red Hat UK, told ZDNet at the Open Source Forum event. "There's no problem with open source take-up in the UK."

There are plenty of people who disagree with him. OpenForum's Graham Taylor, speaking at the same event, is just the latest person to say the UK is crap at open source - it's become a common story from all open source activists.

Alfresco's Open Source Barometer - a study of the community of 35,000 users of the company's content management system - placed the UK equal sixth in the world, after the US, France, Germany and Spain, and equal with Italy.

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