Blogging by its nature is a self-indulgent enterprise, which represents both its primary virtue as well as its greatest weakness. By this I mean that the blogging ethos revolves around...
...recent years, including the elimination of rules that allowed cagey patent filers to amend and extend their filings almost forever, and a 30% increase in the number of patent examiners...
...public information, create greater competition for government business, improve interoperability between applications and organizations, and ensure the archival integrity of digital information. While Bonifaz has endorsed ODF itself, he does...
...the closing paragraphs of a long article at InformationWeek.com. That article was called Lightning Rod no Longer, and focused on corporate ethics, using Peter as an example of someone who didn't take favors from...
Last fall, I received an email from Adam Kennedy, someone I didn't know at the time, announcing that his company (Phase N, an Australian Perl development shop) was preparing a...
...reflection, can find common ground. For further blog entries on Standards and Society, click here subscribe to the free Consortium Standards Bulletin (and remember to Buy Your Books at Biff’s)...
...OpenOffice, to a showing of great hostility by many in the open source community who were already incensed over Novell's recent collaboration agreement with Microsoft (see, for example, Pamela Jones...
...drove a few hours later. But today, new business areas and an industrial park are rising everywhere around St. George that houses aren’t. The new commercial buildings are filled with...
...by eleven of the Executive Board members are of particular interest in this regard. Here is the comment that accompanied IBM’s "no" vote, for example: IBM Comments – http://www.incits.org/ref-docs/in071208.zip IBM...
...and time-phase these entries for posting when I come into town for gas and supplies. To find more of this type of writing based on past trips, look to the...