...has increased many times in importance especially for the elaboration of information and communications technology (ICT), a multipurpose network technology. The ICT standardization regime has undergone a comprehensive phase of...
...paint in the comparative landscape. On the one hand, we have ISC, which describes itself as: [A] growing global coalition of large and small companies committed to advancing the...
...available for license for a fee”. Bill Gates has made it clear that code is zealously guarded and presented in executable form only: “…a competitor who is free to review...
The rapid growth of bioinformatics research over the past two decades has led to a surge of interest in the development of interoperability and compatibility standards for bioinformatics applications. These...
...this topic and do a final comparison to how the press treats a software virus that has targeted (one example of) ODF compliant software, as compared to an Open XML...
...only approved open formats to save documents (Quinn’s proposal concludes that only OpenDoc and pdf files would meet this test at this time). The comment period on the proposal ends...
...at the facts first before taking a deeper dive into what the report has to offer. Methodology: The IDC report was commissioned by Novell, the second most successful commercial distributor of...
It is hard to imagine conducting business around the globe without computer systems, networks, and software. People distribute and search for information, communicate with each other, and transact business. Computers...
...of industrial standards. Additional activities include standardization R&D; promotion of information technology activities; compilation and distribution of publications; cooperation in international standards activities and cooperation with international standards bodies; certification...
We attempt to illuminate the interplay of decentralized, micro-level decisions that shape the allocation of individual voluntary software development efforts on the part of collectivities (communities) of agents, distributing their...