...first reaction was, “So?” While the list of Principles was thorough and concise, there was little that was novel. Mostly, it was a competent distillation of long-acknowledged principles and practices....
...their annual purchase of hundreds of billions of dollars of standards-compliant products. OMB is considering amending or supplementing OMB, and earlier this year solicited public comments on whether, and how,...
...a deep change for LibreOffice and enables us to come closer to fulfilling our mission: to create the tools for knowledge and the instruments of freedom. One can’t help wonder...
...drones without Western espionage becoming aware of the plan. But would that really be so hard? Many countries are building drones now; the technology is not complex. Indeed, Germany launched...
...those fees), among many other complications and variables. Moreover, the same company may be a vendor with respect to the standards being created by one SSO, but a user when...
...impose some limitations that are atypical of more formal standards development processes, both ancient and modern. Public opinion, for example, has been historically incapable of delivering the comforting precision of...
...become largely a community cause rather than a commercial conflict. And the resources of the community could not come close to countering the level of support that Microsoft could place...
Once upon a time we lived in a society that was not only completely analog but infinitely simpler. A time when it seemed the physical world could be understood and...
...inter-country communication platforms and protocols. This process continues, and you can have an impact on future decision making by participating in a survey commissioned by the EC to guide its...
...in estimating the share of true SEPs in firm patent portfolios for several mobile telecommunication standards. We find firm-level differences that are statistically significant and economically substantial. Furthermore, we observe...