How can open-source software help reduce hardware obsolescence?

I was at the Green Tech Forum Brussels and spoke on a panel with Rémy Marrone, Fran?ois Pellegrini, Ignacio Rondini and Gadhu Sundaram about How can open-source software help reduce hardware obsolescence? Many thanks to all of you for this very enlightening and very interesting discussion!

A lot of innovation around the topic of sustainable software comes from the open source community - it is particularly committed to transparency and the reuse of code, but it also counteracts software-related obsolescence.

If you want to know more about sustainable software and the Blue Angel for Software , check out this article. The first software to be awarded the Blue Angel, an open source software - that was the Okular pdf reader of KDE .

Also check out our latest report on software-related obsolescence (unfortunately only in German)