Earlier this year, the European Commission bowed to industry pressure and abandoned an aggressive definition of “open standards.” Now the action is turning to the EU’s member states....
...one of the more notorious examples, a company called STAC claimed that Microsoft first gained access to its disc compression technology under an agreement between the two companies, and then...
...small number two without meaningful competition is better than going for the gold, but having to worry about new competitors (e.g., the free, open source OpenOffice.org, Sun’s StarOffice and IBM...
The transformation from fixed communications systems such as railroads and telephony to adaptive communications systems such as the Internet is evidence of a paradigm shift. This paradigm shift is made...
...I talked with Elizabeth Montalbano of ComputerWorld and Brian Proffit of LinuxToday.com, and saw ZDNet’s Dan Farber madly taking notes throughout my session. There were others besides, making for interesting...
...of Massachusetts Timothy Vaverchak: Director of Open Source Initiative — Commonwealth of Massachusetts Alan Cote: First Deputy Secretary & Supervisor of Records — Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth...
...National Cooperative Research Act of 1984, the European Union’s ‘New Approach’ to regulation, and the World Trade Organization’s Technical barriers to Trade Agreement, and he examines each of these government...
To reach the broadest community of information workers, metadata must be made available in accordance with a number of popular content metadata standards. As the number, size, and complexity of...
Through a survey, private economic value estimates were obtained on 964 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term...
I am pleased the Commission is recommending that federal legislation is necessary to protect consumer privacy. Survey after survey demonstrates that public concerns about privacy have been growing and that...