Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz (master of law) is director for European institution studies at Unisys Belgium (Brussels). His team is in charge of the www.OSOR.eu (Open Source Observatory and Repository), the Free/Libre/Open Source information platform and forge launched by the European Commission for public sector projects. Author or several studies (Study into the use of Open Source Software in Public Sector, IDABC 2001; Pooling Open Source Software, IDABC 2002) he is one of the writers of the European Union Public Licence (EUPL). As a master of law specialised in ICT (legal data banks, thesauri, consulting, strategy and open source licensing) Patrice is an experienced stakeholder and witness covering 30 years business evolution.