Quotes of the Day Archive
I see this as just one more bit of proof that LibreOffice, not OpenOffice, represents the future of open-source office suites
January 31, 2012 – Journalist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, commenting on IBM's announcement that it will abandon support for Symphony in favor of Apache OpenOffice …Full Story
It would be like 'The Road.' The post-apocalyptic world of publishing, with publishers pushing shopping carts down Broadway.
January 30, 2012 – A publishing executive, imagining the impact on publishers if Barnes & Noble were to fail …Full Story
[Y]ou can draw your own conclusions as to what this means
January 18, 2012 – Eye-Fi statement on its refusal to license its patents to implementers of a new SD Association wireless LAN standard …Full Story
It is time for standards bodies and industry consortia to hammer out the architecture and standards underlying cloud federation
January 12, 2013 – Sevcik and Wetzel, advocating for the enablement of the "Intercloud" …Full Story
Not bloody likely
December 29, 2011 – Bill Rosenblatt's rating of the likelihood of there ever being a common eBook standard …Full Story
Somehow we doubt that public accusations and bickering are part of those procedures
January 25, 2012 – Dieter Bohn commenting on the IP kerfuffle between the SD Association and SDA member (and patent owner) Eye-fi …Full Story
We give this up at great peril
December 23, 2011 – Dion Hinchcliffe, highlighting the perils of moving from an open, interoperable web ecosystem to one gated by proprietary mobile applications …Full Story
It is unlikely that faculty (or librarians) will tolerate such a restriction.
January 23, 2012 – Reed College report on a Kindle DX textbook trial, noting that eTextbooks will not succeed until there is a common file format …Full Story
In short, standards have the power to turbo-charge innovation and fuel competitiveness in the global marketplace
December 14, 2011 – Report released Thursday by the U.S. Council on Competitiveness …Full Story
The potential prize is considerable
December 5, 2011 – UK Further Detail on Open Data Measures, promoting an increase in availability of "open data" …Full Story
It is imperative that we develop a nation of cybersavvy citizens
November 29, 2011 – Michael Kaiser, executive director of the National Cyber Security Alliance, on the need to begin teaching cybersecurity awareness in grade schools …Full Story
We think of the Internet as always there. Just because we've become dependent on it, that doesn't mean it's true
November 15, 2011 – Arista founder David Cheriton, commenting on the vulnerabilities of a faster Internet …Full Story
A ground breaking example of how a multi-stakeholder coalition can put IP to work for social benefit
November 3, 2011 – WIPO Director Francis Gurry, announcing the Re:Search R&D consortium …Full Story
There is no simple patch for this problem. We therefore propose to change the standard as soon as possible
October 24, 2011 – German scientist Juraj Somorovsky, co-reporter of an XML security vulnerability …Full Story
We congratulate the LibreOffice community on their success over their inaugural year and wish them luck in their future endeavors
October 17, 2011 – Apache Foundation, tipping its hat to OpenOffice.org fork LibreOffice while reaffirming its commitment to advancing OpenOffice …Full Story
If Apple becomes a place where computers are a commodity item, where the romance is gone, and where people forget that computers are the most incredible invention that man has ever invented, I'll feel I have lost Apple. But if I'm a million miles away, and all those people still feel those things - then I will feel that my genes are still there
October 06, 2011 – Steve Jobs …Full Story
There is perhaps no greater vulnerability that Congress has yet to address through legislation than the insecurity of cyberspace....This simply cannot continue because the stakes are far too high
October 4, 2011 – Ranking Republican Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on the need to update FISMA …Full Story
It's a lot like pornography: you know it when you see it
October 03, 2011 – U.K. Cabinet Office Skunkwork head Mark O'Neill, on the perpetual difficulty of defining "open standards" …Full Story
We're all open standards supporters now, at least in words
October 1, 2011 – Rob Weir, announcing the release of ODF version 1.2 …Full Story
The end of ETSI as we know it
September 28, 2011 – Apple's claim of the consequences if Samsung is allowed to block Apple's iPhone 5, based on it's implementation of a 3G standard …Full Story
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