We analyze the question of the incitations for a developer to participate to FLOSS (Free-Libre-Open Source Software) development. We have interviewed some French developers and personalities advocating this form of...
The complexities of standardization procedures and the interlocking multiplicity of Sectional Committees, Subcommittees, and Working Groups comprising the formal standardization organizations are undoubtedly bewildering to the uninitiated. The author can...
The greatest challenge that newcomers to the standards world must face is grasping the reality that success is about giving away rights in some technology in order to make money...
...from IBM’s San Francisco Framework, there are not many initiatives by the software industry to develop application frameworks to compete with established standard business software vendors. When analyzing the economics...
A company’s website can be a great tool for promoting business online and for generating sales. However, as Web commerce increases, so does the risk that others may copy the...
...never been a more strategic corporate imperative. In growing numbers, enterprises are coming to understand the value of placing consistent, integrated data into the hands of everyone who needs it....
...publicly against those companies that make a business model out of buying and asserting patents, as compared to universities and others that actually develop, and then license, new technology (sometimes...
...innovation, reuse and re-combination of components, and strong network effects that privilege interoperable components and products. In particular, we argue for two sorts of new rules in software patent cases....
...future of political reform and suggests that the resulting weakened control of the Communist Party may ultimately lead either to continued growth and political liberalization or to mass unrest and...
The proliferation of e-portfolio applications requires compatible software and design standards to support lifelong learning.