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The question behind the question, for a lot of the current OOXML debate, seems to be: can Microsoft really be trusted to behave? We shall see [April 22, 2008]
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I didn't think [OOXML] needed to be a standard; getting it that designation is like vanity-press publishing [April 20, 2008]
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Not to put too fine a point on it, Microsoft is a bully. If a child behaved like Microsoft behaves, it would be sent to the bad corner [April 8, 2008]
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[T]his may sound like a discredited election in some third world country [April 7, 2008]
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It must be stressed that it is not the Commission's intention to influence the outcome of this process, but the Commission considers it essential to ensure that European competition law is not violated in the course of the standard setting process [April 4, 2008]
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It was mission impossible. The process wasn't meant for this type of thing [April 2, 2008]
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| | OpenDoc Society Board Member and Dutch OOXML committee member Michiel Leenaars on the adoption of OOXML...Full Story |
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Open XML joins the ranks of PDF, HTML and ODF among the ranks of document formats. I think it makes it easier for governments to offer users choice [April 2, 2008]
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Things are getting weirder and weirder. I think OOXML is going to be in the news for a while [April 1, 2008]
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Microsoft will not comment on the OOXML vote "out of respect for the standards process" until ISO announces the results [march 31, 2008]
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The other question that only time will answer is whether OOXML will be so complex and lengthy that it will have a universe of adopters of 1 [March 29, 2008]
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Wouldn't it be a great step to assert that no patents will be used against Linux? [March 27, 2008]
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You're not likely to hear that from us in the near future [March 27, 2008]
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Based on our review of the OSP, we do not recommend that free
software developers rely on it for assurance. Because free software developers cannot implement OOXML
freely, we urge that it not be approved as an ISO standard [March 13, 2008]
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Power corrupts; PowerPoint corrupts absolutely [March 10, 2008]
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The era of the proprietary format is gone and has been for years now [OpenXML} is owned by the community. And vendors that don’t respond are going to be irrelevant in the future [March 7, 2008]
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We have to consider whether you might have to participate in the standards committee for a little more than an hour before a vote [March 6, 2008]
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| | Lars Flink, chief executive of the Swedish Standards Institute, on the need to review its rules after the OOXML debacle...Full Story |
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Eighty percent of the changes were not discussed [March 3, 2008]
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This is an important domino for Microsoft that is in danger of falling [March 2, 2008]
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| | Gartner Analyst Michael Silver, on the possibility that European governments may abandon OOXML if it is not adopted as an ISO/IEC standard...Full Story |
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The process was complete, utter, unadulterated bullshit [February 29, 2008]
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Perhaps Microsoft hasn't communicated as best as it could have about the openness of OOXML [February 29, 2008]
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You think? [February 24, 2008]
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| | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, asking whether Microsoft's interoperability announcement might possibly have been timed to coincide with the OOXML BRM...Full Story |
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Our goal is to promote greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for customers and developers throughout the industry by making our products more open and by sharing even more information about our technologies [February 21, 2008]
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The proof of this pudding will be in the eating [February 21, 2008]
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This has been one wild ride to observe. [February 21, 2008]
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Millions of vendors across the world are already using the Open XML format as a platform on which to develop new-generation business applications [February 20, 2008]
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The LSB meets the increasing demands of ISVs that want to build portable
applications for Linux [February 19, 2008]
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What antitrust law required them to disclose treasured trade secrets? [February 18, 2008]
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Nana-nana-boo-boo. The standards community has been doing a good job of mimicking a carload of cranky school-aged children [February 10, 2008]
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I believe [OOXML is]one of the best things we've ever done [February 7, 2008]
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Patents are Nasty [February 5, 2008]
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If it was not for IBM it would have been business as usual for this standard [January 30, 2009]
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We don’t think ODF is good enough for our users [January 29, 2008]
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We don't have any intention of trying to monetize the Office space. Symphony is a platform play. [January 26, 2008]
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| | Doug Heintzman, director of strategy for IBM collaboration technologies, escribing Big Blue's "Beyond Office" strategy...Full Story |
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It is impossible to say how the vote will come out, but I think we have worked hard to address all of the concerns that were raised," Van der Bel said during an interview at a Microsoft conference on government software initiatives here. "I am optimistic [January 24, 2008]
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The openXML criticisms has no backing. Interoperability is an issue that we vendors should deal with, not the customers [January 21, 2008]
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| | Microsoft general manager of corporate interoperability and standards group Tom Robertson, briefing the press...Full Story |
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Not exactly new bad-boy Daniel Craig Bond fare. More like Roger Moore on codeine [January 18, 2008]
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Ecma's original submission to ISO last February was 6,000 pages long; by comparison, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary runs 1,681 pages [January 15, 2008]
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There are no true altruists in the standards game [January 7, 2008]
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Considering where we started when we launched the alliance back in 2006, the developments in 2007 are amazing in terms of the progress that has been made [January 5, 2007]
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| | Marino Marcich, managing director of the ODF Alliance, in its 2007 Annual Report...Full Story |
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The Linux Foundation survey found that the Linux desktop has become a mainstream desktop replacement....Linux is no longer just an operating system for the technically inclined. [December 20, 2007]
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| | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, analyzing the results of the Linux Foundation 2007 Linux Desktop Survey...Full Story |
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Four trends: user-friendly Linux desktops, useful under-$500 laptops and desktops, near-universal broadband, and business-ready Internet office applications. Put them together and you have a revolution [December 9, 2007]
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I know that many of you reading my blog are impatient with all the processes that my (recently-retired) generation has created. But when we created these things, we were young and impatient ourselves. [December 5, 2007]
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Right about now Andy’s bloated corpse may be floating down [Boston’s] Charles [River] and Chris [Lilley] is doing his best to shade for his W3C colleagues his 180-degree incorrect statements [December 1 2007]
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ODF has many nonprofit and for-profit friends, all of which are supporting it in various ways. So no, I don't think that there's any need for a new organization to fill a gap that doesn't exist [November 29, 2007]
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| | Me, answering Peter Galli's question at eWEEK.com whether a new nonprofit will be needed to replace the OpenDocument Foundation...Full Story |
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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas [November 26, 2007]
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| | MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, on the flagging sales of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)...Full Story |
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Religious reformer Martin Luther may have nailed 95 objections to Catholic Church practices to the door of a church in Germany. But that's nothing compared to the 3,522 comments that Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML document format attracted from the national standards bodies [November 21, 2007]
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You can only charge for certain technologies for so many decades. These tools ought to go the way of the calculator on the Windows desktop [November 14, 2007]
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| | Mike Rhodin, general manager of IBM's Lotus Software and Collaboration units, on IBM's decision to make the final release of Symphony free...Full Story |
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Some comments are like "It's not ODF." Of course its not ODF [November 12, 2007]
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| | Microsoft's general manager for corporate interoperability and standards, Tom Robertson, commenting on the harder to deal with comments received on OOXML in ISO/IEC...Full Story |
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It's Google vs Microsoft, and Google vs Nokia. It isn't Linux vs Linux [November 7, 2007]
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If you're tougher you set the standards [October 29, 2007]
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| | Juan Delgado, of the Brussels think tank Bruegel, on the EU becoming the pace setter of antitrust enforcement
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Open source culture is the creative practice of appropriation and free sharing of found and created content. The Internet allows even greater access to inexpensive digital media and storage [October 23, 2007]
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A document is a stream, a thread in space and time, connected to other documents, containing other documents, contained in other documents, in multiple layers of meaning and in multiple dimensions [October 15, 2007]
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While preaching "openness" and support for standards, industry proponents of ODF often try to advance narrow corporate agendas that favor their own offerings and business models [October 16, 2007]
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I think it's important that open-source products have an obligation to participate in the same way in the intellectual property regime [October 9, 2007]
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In order for a certification mark to be valuable it has to mean something and we’re trying to walk a fine line between that and where we are which is not having everybody in the industry 100 percent compliant. It’s kind of a delicate walk [October 2, 2007]
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Your work and vision have provided leadership and guidance to others who share your ideals and wish to play a part in 21st century initiatives to secure the record of human achievement for future generations. [September 23, 2007]
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| | Innovation Award dedication text to Pamela Jones, from the Knowledge Trust and the Louis Round Wilson Academy...Full Story |
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The broadband network is a pipe; now we are talking about the water that will flow through the pipe [September 21, 2007]
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There may be additional steps necessary to ensure that we are in full compliance with European law," Ballmer wrote. "We are in close contact with the European competition authorities and we will be discussing this with them in the days to come [September 18, 2007]
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There has obviously been a lot of work that has gone into our efforts to comply with the commission’s terms with respect to communications protocols. We have made a lot of progress in that regard and yet we all have to acknowledge that there are some issues that do remain open [September 17, 2007]
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Trying to unravel what's happening in standards bodies can be like trying to explain Test cricket to someone who's never seen the game: they want to know why it's so slow, and eventually just retire to the bar and ask you to tell them the result [September 6, 2007]
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The OOXML format contains significant design flaws [and it will be difficult to correct them] other than by starting again from scratch, or by enriching the already existing standard, Open Document Format [September 4, 2007]
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There is no requirement for the [National Standards Body] to explain why the change is being requested [September 4, 2007]
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| | Lisa Rajchel, the American secretary for the JTC-1 committee, commenting on upgrades to P membership just prior to the OOXML voting deadline...Full Story |
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[I]t's...like watching the tragedy of a massive train wreck in slow motion. One is both horrified and fascinated [September 4, 2007]
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Politics aside, there are 400 million users of the Office Open format, and we basically just recognized reality [September 3, 2007]
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| | Former Ecma Jan van den Beld, explaining (inaccurately) Ecma's rationale for adopting OOXML (while Office 2007 implements OOXML, legacy versions of Office do not)...Full Story |
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One could argue that asking a voting body to digest 6,000 pages in less than a week is equivalent to asking a human to drink six gallons of orange juice in an hour. Possible, but Herculean -- and you will probably feel like vomiting long before you're through [September 2, 2007]
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The problems associated with the need to translate between formats will continue and will diminish the value of XML [September 2, 2007]
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Microsoft's Jason Matusow recently wrote “at the heart of this remains the idea that making document formats more open is a good thing”. On th contrary, I would argue that the issue of making document formats more open was forgotten long ago [September 2, 2007]
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I was just chairing a meeting like I have done for many more of these meetings. It happens that I am a Microsoft employee [August 31, 2007]
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Everyone with a vested interest in this – both pro and con – are working with all of the tools available to them [August 24, 2007]
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| | Microsoft's Jason Matusow, warningn about what to expect as OOXML seeks approval by ISO/IEC JTC1...Full Story |
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For the reasons stated above, the court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights [August 10, 2007]
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That's Aaaaall, Folks! [August 10, 2007]
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We are calling on the government to veto the OOXML format at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)." [August 8, 2007]
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We are promoting the new format in response to our users' needs [August 8, 2007]
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Companies are recognizing the need and assigning a very real ROI to the implementation of [semantic technologies]. [August 7, 2007]
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The tools to enable this [type of public legislative] collaboration are in place today. Would they work the same in government? It's hard to say, but the potential is there [July 17, 2007]
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| | Amanda McPherson, director of marketing for the Linux Foundation...Full Story |
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What happened in the past has happened [July 15, 2007]
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| | Intel's Will Swope, on Intel's decision to support the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative...Full Story |
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IBM is sending a message that innovation and industry growth happens in an open, collaborative atmosphere. Users will adopt new technologies if they know that they can find those technologies in a variety of interchangeable, compatible products from competing vendors [Julyl 11, 2007]
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"Someone could submit a comment and we could make a review of the ETRM and make changes..." Those changes could include eliminating Open XML from ETRM in the final draft [July 9, 2007]
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Intellipedia is a shining example of a successful widespread enterprise [Defense Intelligence Agency] implementation of Web 2.0 [July 11, 2007]
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We are living in a world that is a ticking timebomb with regard to digital preservation [July 4, 2007]
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You need standards for how to teleport between different virtual worlds and to bring objects with you [June 26, 2007]
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We add 2,000 lines of code a day to the Linux kernel. We work on 2,800 lines of code a day. I've never seen the pace of change that Linux has shown [June 14, 2007]
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Today, the average desktop PC wastes nearly half of its power, and the average server wastes one-third of its power,” said Urs Holzle, senior vice president of operations at Google [June 13, 2007]
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It’s not an evil empire. It’s just a company that is efficiently grounded in the 1980s [June 11, 2007]
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I don't think that will ever happen.
I don't see how it could happen [June 7, 2007]
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| | Current Anaylsis principal analysis of application infrastructure Bradley F. Shimmin's assessment of the likelihood that vendors will ever agree on a single standardized Web services stack...Full Story |
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One of the industry's current entertainments is the argument about office file formats [June 6, 2007]
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I wouldn't know an open document format if it bit me on the butt [June 5, 2007]
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| | Minnesota State Senator Don Betzold, following passage of a bill with watered-down language on open document formats...Full Story |
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Yes, well we need to be specific about intellectual property and where the [Linux] violations are, I guess [June 1, 2007]
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Touch one member of the Linux community, and you will have to deal with all of us [May 26, 2007]
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| | Linux Foundation Ex. Director Jim Zemlin, responding to Microsofts "235 patents" article in Fortune magazine...Full Story |
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Our customers made us do it (paraphrase) [May 24, 2007]
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| | Why Microsoft is asking for licenses to use its "235 patents" infringed by open source software, according to Bob Muglia, senior VP of Microsoft's server and tools business...Full Story |
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It's the age-old formula: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they threaten to have a colony of attorneys descend upon you from a great height. The Open Source Movement has truly arrived [May 18, 2007]
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| | Robert X. Cringely®, writing at InfoWorld [uh, dude, like, what's with the ®?]...Full Story |
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It's the age-old formula: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they threaten to have a colony of attorneys descend upon you from a great height. The Open Source Movement has truly arrived [May 18, 2007]
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| | Robert X. Cringely®, writing at InfoWorld [uh, dude, like, what's with the ®?]...Full Story |
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Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah! [May15, 2007]
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Not a lot of work, no -- but a little work [May 14, 2007]
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| | Tim Berners-Lee, in reply to the question, "Would enabling the semantic Web take a lot of work?"...Full Story |
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IBM seems keen for ODF to be the only standard for everyone [May 11, 2007]
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| | "Severe critism" (?) leveled by Darren Strange, senior product manager for Microsoft Office 2007...Full Story |
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Perhaps, from the near-sighted left, it looks as though there is little to distinguish the flossers from the Tories anyway [May 7, 2007]
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| | The UK's Register, commenting on Tory Party plans to make Britain the "open source leader of Europe"...Full Story |
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They were here lickety-split [April 30, 2007]
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| | Florida Assemblyman Ed Homan, on the arrival of Microsoft lobbyists within an hour of the reading of his quickly defeated open format amendment...Full Story |
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Immediately we heard from Microsoft and their lobbyist here in Austin, and we knew we'd be up against a tough battle, because of who they are and the lobbyist they hired [April 30, 2007]
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It was clear to me that a cartellike consortium was being created for the purpose of forcing a de facto standard on other manufacturers," Lieberfarb says. [April 26, 2007]
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China, keen to build up national technological standards but wary of face-losing hiccups, is walking a middle road between further delays in its TD-SCDMA rollout, and staying cautious [April 25, 2007]
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It is not a sensible move [April 20, 2007]
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| | Tian Lipu, Commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), on the US bringing a complaint to the WTO regarding IPR infringement in China...Full Story |
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Finally, I’m concerned the world’s going to burn to a cinder in not too long if we don’t do something about it [April 19, 2007]
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It was like the movie 'Men in Black.' Three Microsoft lobbyists, all wearing black suits [April 18, 2007]
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| | Florida Rep. Ed Homan, describing the three lobbyists who said that his open formats language must go...Full Story |
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Any company that is not currently making efforts to address Linux in the handset space will be behind the curve [April 19, 2007]
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The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things [April 14, 2007]
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Standardized testing by itself will not accelerate Linux adoption, but it does fill in more potholes on the road to open source in the data center, allowing other factors to drive adoption faster [April, 15, 2007]
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Piracy and counterfeiting levels in China remain unacceptably high [April 10, 2007]
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All illegal gains and manufacturing tools of IPR violators should be confiscated and their pirated products destroyed." [April 10, 2007]
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I am waiting for everyone to calm down [April 9, 2007]
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| | Datuk Dr Mohamad Ariffin Aton, announcing his decision to suspend discussion of ODF as a Malaysian national standard due to "feuding" between IBM and Microsoft...Full Story |
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Am I the only one...who finds it ironic that Microsoft is citing "customer choice" and "interoperability" as the motivators for its moves? [April 5, 2007]
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We were delighted to read on Ecma International's site that the ISO has advanced the Open XML Formats to the next phase of the ISO's fast-track process for further consideration [April 3, 2007]
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We look forward to working with ISO/IEC and their Member Bodies and National Committees to address any technical issues that they may have about Office Open XML and look forward to Ecma-376 Office Open XML becoming an ISO/IEC standard [April 3, 2007]
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Open document standards are insurance policies for your documents, versus a history-losing accident waiting to happen [April 1, 2007]
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| | IBM's Bob Sutor, addressing the Texas State legislature on the subject of a draft open formats bill...Full Story |
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If you care about Linux, this is your foundation - it doesn't belong to me, or Linus, or big business, or the kernel developers. It belongs to everyone who cares enough to join and make Linux better [March 31, 2007]
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Whether or not ODF can enable Office competitors to take the next step and actually threaten the flagship product will depend on the products themselves [March 28, 2007]
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| | Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady, on new challenges for ODF, following its early success in attracting government interest...Full Story |
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We never planned to let so much time pass between public releases of the license [March 27, 2007]
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Why, one wonders, is Commissioner Reding defying the wishes of the European telecoms and broadcasting industry which is united in calling for technology neutrality? [March 24, 2007]
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| | World DMB Head Quentin Howard, on Ethe U Commissions willingness to see two standards for mobile TV proliferate...Full Story |
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Ian is no ordinary technologist: he brings with him a high profile, and the attendant benefits will likely accrue in some fashion to his new employer [March 21 2007]
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Today my new colleague is here to perhaps guide the combination of the brilliance of Solaris and the pervasive and seductive character of GNU/Linux to start the next wave. [march 19, 2007]
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| | Sun's Simon Phipps, welcoming Ian Murdock as Sun's new Chief Operating Platforms Officer...Full Story |
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This is going to be fun! [march 19, 2007]
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| | Ian Murdock, announcing his new position at his blog...Full Story |
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The challenge for the Linux community is to look at what Microsoft does well and do those things effectively in a collective manner [March 15, 2007]
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The companies that can help consumers manage and access photos ultimately will have a significant say in how those images are monetized in the future [March 16, 2007]
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| | InfoTrends analyst Ed Lee, commenting on Microsoft's announcement that it would contribute its HD Photo format specification to a consortium...Full Story |
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If they find a way to do backwards-compatibility in 700 pages, I'd buy it [March 15, 2007]
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| | Jean Paoli, senior director of XML architecture at Microsoft and co-inventor of the OOXML, on why OOXML needs to be so long...Full Story |
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Ecma is, of course, very interested to learn the views of the National Bodies in JTC 1 and ISO/IEC about this subject [March 14, 2007]
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I don't really see why we can't have overlapping standards [March 8, 2007]
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If we ever were really in a war, it's now over, and both sides are winners [March 7, 2007]
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| | Microsoft's Brian Jones, announcing mutual victory for OOXML and ODF...Full Story |
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To me, it seems like non-governmental users won't and don't care about which file formats their office apps use, given that Microsoft Office still has a more than 95% market share....If you run something else, you better find out whether your apps can read/write the Microsoft formats? Am I oversimplifying here? [March 2, 2007]
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Enterprises seeking near-term openness in the use and exchange of file formats may well face less risk with ODF [February 17, 2007]
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We are thrilled with the progress to date.... OpenDocument is no longer a thing to be feared, as we once thought. The OASIS process exemplifies what should be done if true accessibility to both a document format and the tools to manipulate it are to be achieved [February 16, 2007]
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| | Curtis Chong, president of the National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science, on the new accessbility features of ODF 1.1...Full Story |
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Microsoft has determined that it is important to shine a bright light on IBM’s activities that will have a negative impact on the IT industry and customers, including taking concrete steps to prevent customer choice, engaging in hypocrisy, and working against the industry and against customer needs [February 15, 2007]
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We see a level of hypocrisy in IBM's activities [February 14, 2007]
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| | Tom Robertson, Microsoft's GM for interoperability and standards,charging IBM with lobbying to block government adoption of OOXML...Full Story |
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All in all, not a very auspicious start for OOXML. And not one that bodes well for a very fast fast-track experience [February 8, 2007]
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All I can say is that there is a lot of hype in this area [February 8, 2007]
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| | Tom Robertson, GM for interoperability and standards at Microsoft, as quoted in eWeek...Full Story |
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My belief is we could probably see some sort of ding to current memory royalties [at Rambus] based on the cap [February 8, 2007]
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This is tantamount to digital colonialisation [February 6, 2007]
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| | Jaijit Bhattacharya, director, government strategy, Sun Microsystems, speaking about the impact of OOXML on emerging economies...Full Story |
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A standard is about a stack of paper -- market adoption is the ultimate driver of activity [February 4, 2007]
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Bad process. Bad, bad process. Go to your room without any supper [February 2, 2007]
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Linux Foundation: Corporate Lackey or Linux Savior? [January 27, 2007]
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I’d say, for once in history, the interests of large corporations and community members, people who use technology, are aligned. [January 27, 2007]
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At a minimum, it could be viewed as unethical [January 24, 2007]
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| | Wikipedia general counsel Brad Patrick, on Microsofts proposal to hire blogger Rick Jellife to "correct" the ODF/OOXML entry in Wikipedia...Full Story |
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We will be a vendor neutral organization capable of responding to competitors' attacks and FUD [January 21, 2007]
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| | Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the new Linux Foundation...Full Story |
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We had some options in there that literally did nothing [January 19, 2007]
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Everyone seems to agree it is a good idea [January 18, 2007]
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| | Rosemary Smith, commenting on the "deceased suppression database"...Full Story |
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Open Office has all the functionalities that public offices need to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations [January 17, 2007]
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We have finally put down the boxing gloves and are trying to figure out how to solve our customers' problems [January 10, 2007]
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Merry Christmas everyone! [January 2, 2007]
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| | muslix64, showing how you, too, can decrypt your new HD-DVD movies...Full Story |
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The Internet is arguably the greatest facilitator for freedom of expression and innovation in the world today [December 26, 2006]
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| | Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, announcing a new Global Internet Freedom Strategy...Full Story |
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The IEEE is toothless in the face of major electronics companies with huge pockets, who will move forward, try to convince people they want their product, and later on will go to the IEEE and say "All done" [December 24, 2006]
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There’s an uncanny correlation between how a person votes in committee and who pays their way to the meeting [December 24, 2006]
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| | Stephen Wood, president of the WiMedia Alliance, on recent behavior in the IEEE 802.20 Task Group...Full Story |
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This is really an effort that cries out for collaboration [December 16, 2006]
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| | AHIP VP Susan Pisano, announcing a new standardized patient health record proposal...Full Story |
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It\'s like a universal decoder ring [December 15, 2006]
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For every phone maker in the world [500 million mobile phone users] is a magic figure. The sort that gives executives erotic dreams [December 13, 2--6]
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Microsoft's decision to bring their new software format to an international standards body and today's vote validate our efforts to adopt open standards [December 10, 2006]
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This doesn't make us want to go back to Office, [but] it encourages us to use both formats [December 9, 2006]
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| | Danny J. Wall, a network engineer at Health First Inc. in Rockledge, Fla....Full Story |
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Hopefully this will allow some of the supposed conflict to die down. Now that OpenXML is an open international standard, we think that people will essentially have much greater trust that it's around for the long term [December 8, 2006]
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| | Alan Yates, Microsoft's general manager for information-worker strategy...Full Story |
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The level of precision in this standard is unprecedented [December 7, 2006]
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| | Adam Farquhar, head of e-architecture at the British Library and Ecma-OOXML TC member...Full Story |
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[if you're] an organization...that wants to push an agenda, let's say, with ODF...in plain language, by going with a solution like ours, you're still covering your rear end, because if things don't go the way you expect, then you always have an exit option that you might not have otherwise [December 5, 2006]
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| | Corel's general manager for office productivity Richard Carriere...Full Story |
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If you want to stay relevant, you always have to take into consideration what the dominant player does [December 4, 2006]
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| | Richard Carriere, Corel general manager of office productivity...Full Story |
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What we've seen to our disappointment is that the discussions are around lobbying in ways to nail Microsoft in a corner by these industry players [November 30, 2006]
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| | Richard Carriere, Corel General Manager of Office Productivity, contrasting Corel's motives with those of (presumably) IBM, Sun et al....Full Story |
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Oh, I love Google. Google is a big threat for Microsoft and distracts it from the rest of us. [Google] is simultaneously our heat shield and an important partner [November 27, 2006]
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Making standards is hard work [November 23, 2006]
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The digital divide is not as important as the linguistic divide and that is the one we should be bridging in order to guarantee the democratic governance of the [November 16, 2006]
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| | Adama Samassekou, president of the African Academy of Languages in Mali...Full Story |
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If a small government like the one in Massachusetts can bring IT vendors to their knees..., imagine what a big one like China\'s — one whose process is less open to lobbyists and other forms of paid influence (and also less open to American technology dominance) — can do [November 13, 2006]
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They can leave little notes that are triggered by proximity to a restaurant or make-out spot. Somebody with a good consumer application could turn the corner in a matter of a year [November 10, 2006]
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| | RFID "Smart Dust" inventor Kristofer Pister, speculating on the Killer App that could launch RF Time of Flight mesh network technology...Full Story |
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I believe the market now and even more over time is rapidly leaving the proprietary system space -- be it proprietary Unix, proprietary mainframe -- and they're taking advantage of x86 capabilities. There's two players: Windows and Linux. I think over the next 10 years it's going to be a Windows-Linux on x86 world for anyone buying a new server. [November 9, 2006]
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I think it is safe to say that a successful implementation of such a standard would be considered one of civilization\'s greatest achievements, on a par with the discovery of the wheel, or possibly even the introduction of reality television. [November 7, 2006]
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| | Andrew Leonard, writing at Salon.com about a new Chinese standard to permit you to own just one video remote control...Full Story |
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Without any standards in place, you could be using open source [software] and still get locked into a specific vendor [November 7, 2006]
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This is capitalism. We're competing. We're offering a better product at a lower price [October 26, 2006]
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| | Larry Ellison, explaining economic theory and announcing Unbreakable Linux 2.0 at the same time...Full Story |
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Well GOS darn it Billy boy …here comes ODF [October 18, 2006]
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| | Scott Frangos, writing at CMSOnline about growing momentum for "Government Open Source"...Full Story |
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"What's wrong with SourceForge?" is my view. It's got all the tools that you want. [October 17, 2006]
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| | Eddie Bleasdale, owner of consultancy NetProject, on the EU-s announcement of the launch of a resource for public sector organizations to share open-source code and applications...Full Story |
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In the view of the European administrations and Member States, the ODF standard is at the very top of the pile by far from all other proposed open standards [October 9, 2006]
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| | Dr. Barbara Held, Enterprise & Industry Directorate-General/European Commission Program for Interchange of Data between Administrations, speaking at ODF Day/aKademy 2006...Full Story |
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It's the right solution technically, and the right thing to do for the environment [Septembe 28, 2006]
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| | Urs Hoelzle and Bill Weihl of Google, proposing a new PC power standard...Full Story |
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We were hoping that the laws would change more quickly. We're not going to wait [September 26, 2006]
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| | John Kelly, SVP for technology and intellectual property at IBM, explaining why IBM has adopted a new patent policy...Full Story |
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Unless there is a serious updating of copyright law to recognize the changing technological environment, the law becomes an ass [September 26, 2006]
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| | Lynne Brindley, CEO, British Library...Full Story |
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Love makes the world go 'round, but standards make the electronics industry grow by leaps and bounds [September 18, 2006]
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| | IP Capsule Editor Brian Santo...Full Story |
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If there is one war I will sign up to enthusiastically its the war for open standards, unencumbered by potential chilling effects. [October 16, 2006]
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| | RedMonk Analyst James Governor...Full Story |
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More attention needs to be paid to the role IT can play in helping raise social and economic standards in the developing world. If the world's governments and technology firms continue to work apart, then only slow progress will be made [September 7, 2006]
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| | Abdulrahman Jarrar, Intel's regional manager for Government Affairs for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa...Full Story |
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There is the official policy and then there is what the [Chinese] consumers want [September 3, 2006]
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| | Erin Ennis, VP of the U.S.-China Business Council...Full Story |
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I didn't come for the conflict -- I came for the principle [August 30, 2006]
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| | Massachusetts CIO Louis Gutierrez...Full Story |
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IBM is going to be as bold and aggressive with open source as we are with Linux, more broadly and permanently transforming our company with the open movement [August 19, 2006]
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| | Scott Handy, Vice President Linux and Open Source, IBM...Full Story |
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I don’t think that I or any of the people in Sun’s Java organization know how to take Java and make it into a successful open-source community [August 16, 2006]
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Qualcomm violated its ETSI obligations by refusing to negotiate a FRAND license royalty for the use of declared essential IPR [August 13, 2006]
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| | Bill Plummer, VP for external affairs for Nokia in North America...Full Story |
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This is Nokia’s desperate attempt to have the judicial system change what Nokia has agreed to [August 13, 2006]
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The government will become a marketing agent for proprietary software companies [August 9, 2006]
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| | U.N. International Open Source Network (IOSN) Manager Sunil Abraham, advising Asian countries on the alternative to adoptin an open source implelementation of ODF...Full Story |
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We believe the ALJ guy got it right [August 7, 2006]
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| | Rambus legal spokesman and former General Counsel John Danforth, on the FTC's reversal of an Administrative Law Judge's earlier finding in favor of Rambus, Inc....Full Story |
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Rambus' abuse of JEDEC's standard-setting process was intentional, inappropriate and injurious to competition and consumers alike [August 7, 2006]
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