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Open standards has been a recurring theme here on Open Enterprise. It's also been the occasion of one of the most disgraceful U-turn...

At the end of last year I reported on the worrying signs of vacillation from the UK government over its support for truly open standards...

Last week I went along to OpenForum Europe , where I had been invited to give a short talk as part of a panel on “Tackling “Societal Chal...

Last year, one of the key themes of this blog was the battle over version 2 of the European Interoperability Framework, and its definition o...

It's easy to take things for granted – to assume that the world will always be as it is. And then sometimes you receive a mild jolt: som...

The Guardian has published a very curious piece today, entitled: “A Call for Caution on Open Source”. It concludes: The UK coalition governm...

So far, I've held off from writing about the proposed sale of 882 Novell patents to a consortium “organised by Microsoft”, since there h...

You may remember that there was a big to-do about the European Interoperability Framework, and the definition of “open standards”. The key i...

The Economist has been writing poorly-informed articles about open source for years - I dissected a particularly egregious example back in 2...

Long-suffering readers of this blog will know that the European Interoperability Framework has occupied me for some time - I wrote about the...

The European Commission looms large in these pages. But despite that importance, it remains - to me, at least - an opaque beast. Hugely-impo...

As you may have noticed, I've been writing quite a lot about the imminent European Interoperability Framework (EIF), and the extent to w...

A little while back I was pointing out how free software licences aren't generally compatible with Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminato...

I see that my old mates the Business Software Alliance are a tad concerned that the European Commission might do something sensible with the...

Open source is under attack in Europe. Not openly or obviously, but in the background, behind closed doors. The battleground is the imminent...

One of the central lessons to be learned from free software is that individuals can make a difference. Not many would have given Richard Sta...

I've noted before that writing to MPs/MEPs seems to be remarkably effective in terms of generating a response. The naïve among us might ...

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There is a scandal brewing over open standards in Europe: On June 29 2007, the European Commission agency IDABC published document written ...