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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...

I've written many times about why FRAND licensing is not an option for open source projects, and should therefore be replaced by Roy...

As regular readers of this column know, there's still a battle going on over whether standards should be FRAND or restrict...

Last week I wrote a piece suggesting that FRAND is dying. It was written in the wake of the major UK decision on open standards, and wa...

Last week's big announcement by the UK government was principally about procurement, detailing the new rules that will apply when g...

In a huge win for open standards, open source and the public, the long-awaited UK government definition of open standards has come down ...

Long-suffering readers may recall that the issue of FRAND licensing in the context of open standards cropped up quite a lot this year. W...

Since today is a Bank Holidayin the UK, I hope that a few of you might take the opportunity to make a submission to the UK consultation on...

Ten years ago, people were saying that open source would never be able to best proprietary software. But what they overlooked was the fa...

In my first two posts about Microsoft's lobbying against true open standards, I concentrated on a document sent to the Cabinet Office ...

In yesterday's post about Microsoft's lobbying of the Cabinet Office against truly open standards based on RF licensing, I spent...

In my last post, I wrote about my Freedom of Information request to find out how Microsoft had been lobbying against true open standards...

Regular readers may recall that I was not a little taken aback by an astonishing U-turn performed by the Cabinet Office on the matter of o...

I still remember well the day in October 1994 when I downloaded the first beta of Netscape's browser. It was instantly obvious that t...

As regular readers know, there is a struggle going on between the free software community that needs open standards to be RF (strictly sp...

Regular readers of this column will know that I often write about the issues of open standards and FRAND vs. RF licensing. One particular c...

Here's an interesting move from the European Commission: On Open Enterprise blog .

Somewhat belatedly (apologies), here is the second part of my analysis of the UK government's Open Standards consultation. As well as...

The increasingly heated debates about the traditionally dull area of computer standards is testimony to the rise of open source. For the ...