...as compared to the other bills already introduced, require use of ODF(for which there are multiple compliant freeware versions available), and prohibit the use of OOXML-compliant products, none of which...
...a case study of the POSIX effort from 1983 through the turn of the century. Key events and turning points in the activity are identified along with their apparent impact...
In the last two issues we examined several evolutionary trends in the standard setting world, each of which has manifested itself in the comparatively recent past. In this article, we...
n the field of compatibility standards, an increasing number of companies claim to own so-called essential patents (i.e. those patents that are indispensable for designing and manufacturing products conforming to...
...for this purpose. An examination of how this new standards development ecosystem has evolved demonstrates how complex standards infrastructures come into existence through the reordering of relationships among existing, and...
...creates more value for a firm involved in standardization, this paper investigates the market value of standardization initiatives, using an event study based on 148 XML schema standardization initiatives collected...
This dissertation project systematically analyzed a series of open-source texts to examine the representation of users in the open-source community. This systematic analysis involved a multiple-methodological approach in order to...
...Hale-Evans on the value of Linux development. The paper finds that it would take approximately $10.8 billion to build the Linux community distribution Fedora 9 in today’s dollars with today’s...
...found no evidence that ex ante disclosure policies resulted in measurable negative effects on the number of standards produced, staff time commitments or quality of standards, nor was there compelling...
The threat of patent “hold-up”, in which patent holders demand compensation from implementers of technical standards following wide-scale adoption of those standards, has focused significant governmental, academic and industry attention...