...“S.” “What do N, W and S have in common?” he asked his father. “Well, throw in an E, and you’ve got the four points of the compass.”...
...public Web page. Here it is, with footnotes indicating where my comments apply, followed by a comparison of the non-assertion pledge given by Sun to OASIS in favor of OpenDocument....
...agreements, and without inviting other companies to join in. That’s what makes the Google announcement interesting. Clearly it has an opposing company, or companies in mind that it does not...
...you would expect from one of the world’s leading IT companies. Sun also adds some commercially-licensed extras into the box – such as additional fonts. OpenOffice.org is a free of...
...the servers in the Free World now (and the Free World is a lot bigger than it used to be). Happily, the bandwidth seems to be much better today, which is...
...short for robots – were networks of co-opted personal computers that hackers had already taken over. Office computers, home computers – any kind of computer – that a hacker had...
Compared to other markets, those with standards battles exhibit certain fundamental characteristics that make the consumer decision to adopt a new product more risky and complex. This paper examines how...
...grandeur found elsewhere. Together they comprised a community of culturally related people that moved onto this high mesa in one millennium to exploit its resources, to make a home, and to...
...to work with particular projects that can serve as best practice exemplars of how commercial software companies and open source communities can effectively collaborate. The About page has additional detail,...
We study several interconnected problems that arise under the current U.S. patent system when a patent covers one component or feature of a complex product. This situation is common in...