...the most immediate concrete results involved the possibility of additional companies making patent non-assertion commitments, either identical or similar to the non-assertion pledge already made by Sun. The effect would...
...the Open Source as Prior Art project (www.osapa.org), the Patent Commons www.patent-commons.org), and sponsorship of the Linux Legal Defense Fund, and further programs now under development. These staff additions...
Originally conceived to accompany materials prepared for the Future of Standardization Conference Sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Department Of Commerce, and the Information Technology Industry Council, the...
...the regulatory standard-setting process, we find that full compliance with the new drinking water standard for boron has been hampered. Prior to the standard’s enactment, it was unclear whether boron...
In markets that exhibit network effects, the presence of conversion technologies provides an alternative mechanism to achieve compatibility. This study examines the impact of conversion technologies on market equilibrium in...
Open source software (OSS) development teams use informal communication to coordinate their work towards common goals. According to software engineering folklore, the architecture and the organization of the final product...
...such networks as alternatives to more traditional international institutions, we examine the synergistic interaction between the two. Building on the broader premise that patterns of “dual delegation” above and below...
...the Americas. It provides information about inspection and testing, product certification, quality system registration and laboratory accreditation for the countries that will comprise the Free Trade Area of the Americas....
Recently Carl Malamud suggested in his book, “Exploring the Internet” (Interop Publishers, California), that standards should be free! The fees from the sale of standards and the stringent policies on...
The notion of intellectual property is used in order to create digital commodities. While the commodification of code is useful for certain kinds of knowledge intensive work (the Taylorist forms),...