...instruments such as contract provisions, explicit references in the law, default rules, good business practices, and so on. Enforcement is partly based on legal instruments, but also on the market....
In his recent book entitled The Road Ahead, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates argued that government should get out of the standards setting business. He states, “Sometimes governments or committees set...
Standard developing organizations (SDOs) can help unify uncoordinated economic activities and conflicting business interests by supporting the growth of viable systems of self-regulation. This paper considers three organizations that have...
Many companies are attempting to leverage the power of financial information by creating corporate websites to provide such information to employees, investors, and financial analysts. Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)...
The theoretical analyses of patent pools almost exclusively assume that participation is automatic – any firm with a relevant patent and an option to join a patent pool is assumed...
The pro- and anti-competitive implications of technical compatibility standards are introduced in general terms and then applied to current issues in telecommunications policy. The demand and supply for standards under...
Maintained large-scale storage virtualization and data management *Now Silicon Graphics, Inc FileTek provided large-scale storage virtualization and data management information governance solutions. *Acquired by Silicon Graphics, Inc. in 2013...
Develops and promotes resources to help developers of Android applications. The One Platform Foundation is a global, open-source initiative promting the Android ecosystem by enabling developers to easily code and...
...are in fact arranged marriages entered into as a face-saving alternative to simply closing the doors). So it happens that the Embedded Linux Consortium has come to the end of...
...standards competitions, with the combatants making common cause and marching forward into the marketplace, arm in arm (and sometimes, as with VHS and Betamax, it doesn’t). So — Will the...