In a series of cases decided over the past two decades, courts have tried to define the protection provided by copyright law to computer programs. One issue often implicit and...
The interaction of individuals, social capital and standards processes has been analyzed through statistical perspectives. Looking at these conclusions in the specific case of the IEEE POSIX(UNIX) standards effort provides...
Most states have adopted high school economics standards, but implementation efforts face two hurdles: evidence indicates (i) that five or six economics classes are needed for high school economics teachers...
A widespread “pro-standards view” holds that compatibility standards and modularity are beneficial but are under-supplied by imperfect markets. The author stresses that this view is not unambiguously proven by economic...
The demand for standards-based interoperable corporate services from banks will only increase. Although they may appear to offer short-term tactical advantages, attempts to lock-in customers by refusing to implement such...
A definition of the word “standard”, as found in the Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary, is “something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example.” Conversely, the word...
...companies who benefit the economy by developing products that consumers want. The extortionary royalty payments, it is said, constitute a “tax” that ultimately leads to less product development and higher...
The Belgian federal government’s June 2004 decision to promote the use of open standards has been reinforced by the launch of BELGIF [Belgian Government Interoperability Framework], launched by the ICEG...
Increasingly, deployments of the Linux server operating system are expanding from infrastructure-oriented workloads to more commercially-oriented workloads such as database, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and other general business processing,...
The technology industry has come to rely heavily on open standards to bring innovation to market. The industry has evolved to a point where no single company can manage and...