Encouraging the production of free software in research institutions

• Publicly funded research should disseminate its results because this
  • contributes to public knowledge
  • is a propellent to research advancement
  • creates a software base for the industry to exploit
• Research projects should aim at producing free software
• Free software should be regarded as a research achievement per se, by creating a network of software peer reviewers
• Spinoffs based on free software should be favoured