...bond. I am presiding over the dismantling of an IT investment program - over a decade in the evolution - that the legislative leadership appears unwilling to salvage at this...
...out by the behemoth? I tried to give that question an even handed response as well – because in fact it's common practice for most companies to engage in the...
...at all? Here’s why. The most persuasive comments (and contradictions) come from the national bodies that ultimately have the power to vote up or down on an ISO/IEC proposed standard. ...
...approve Ecma 376 (formerly Microsoft's OfficeOpen XML formats). A number of votes were tried across marathon proceedings, including "approval, with comments," "abstention, with comments," and "disapproval, with comments," all of...
...comments originally submitted (the press release says “by the 87 voting countries,” but I believe that the total number of countries that actually submitted comments, as compared to the number...
...to the streets in their defense? The details come from Geir Isene, who you may recall from this prior entry was part of the Standards Norge OOXML mirror committee that...
...next to his desktop computer. He stared at it and waited. Sure enough, there it was again. Someone was watching him using the video camera on his own computer! Frank’s...
...They chatted about this and that while they ate, and Frank gradually became more comfortable. But then Josette asked, “How is your book?” Frank’s smile faded. “Oh, I’m still doing research. I’ll...
"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did...
...reason that antitrust and competition regulators allow head to head competitors to get together in closed rooms and agree to do things the same way is because the practice enables...