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09 August 2011
When in Romania...
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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...
11 December 2010
Whatever Happened to the EU Interoperability Policy?
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As readers of this blog will know, interoperability is a key issue in Europe at the moment. We are still waiting for the imminent version 2 ...
23 April 2010
Tussling for the Soul of EU's Digital Economy Agenda
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A little while ago I wrote about the worrying signs that the imminent Digital Economy Agenda, currently being drawn up by Neelie Kroes, was ...
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29 March 2010
Open Source and Open Standards under Threat in Europe
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Open source is under attack in Europe. Not openly or obviously, but in the background, behind closed doors. The battleground is the imminent...
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16 December 2009
EC Says OK to MS IE Deal: How Much of a Win?
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Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition Policy, had some news this morning: Today is an important day for internet users in Euro...
23 November 2009
Has Microsoft Got a Job for You...
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Since it's Monday morning, I thought I'd start the week gently, with a little humour, courtesy of a Microsoft job ad. After all, who...
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19 June 2009
ODF and the Art of Interoperability
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It's hard to believe that there was such sound and fury when OOXML was being pushed through the ISO process. At the time, it seemed like...
16 September 2008
BECTA Back in Play
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Just in case you thought things were getting a little dull in the world of UK computing compared to, say, UK finance, here comes the BECTA r...
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01 September 2008
Write to Them: European Interoperability Framework v2
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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 ...
01 August 2008
Alfresco: the Samba of Enterprise Content Management
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On Open Enterprise blog .
13 March 2008
EU "Will Prefer Open Source Software"
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This seems a rather low-key announcement of a suprisingly strong policy: In a document published last week, the EC states among others that...
25 January 2008
Freeing French Growth with Free Software
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Amongst many other things, one matter that they order better in France is the production of government reports with a grand sweep. One was...
21 November 2007
Interoperability: The New Battlefield
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One word is starting to crop up again and again when it comes to Microsoft: interoperability - or rather the lack of it. It was all over th...
23 October 2007
I Was Wrong: Microsoft Won
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I could feel it in my bones: the great victory of the EU over MS is a sham. Here's why. Ex-steely Neelie - to be renamed wheeler-deal...
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22 October 2007
Microsoft Opens Its Gritted Teeth
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I didn't write about Microsoft's capitulation to steely Neelie earlier because the open source aspect seemed unclear. Trust Matthew...
19 October 2007
OSA Alert Alert
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A few months back I wrote a feature about the importance of making open source apps play nicely with each other. One of the key players he...
17 September 2007
EU: 2, Microsoft, 1
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What's most interesting about the European Court of First Instance upholding the European Commission's main actions against Microso...
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18 June 2007
I Want to Learn About CC Learn
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Sounds cool : James Boyle ... announced that a new project, called “CC Learn”, has been launched, to work on lobbying all the open education...
04 June 2007
No Xmas Cards for Xandros
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Well, it looks like the world of free software can cross another company off its Christmas card list: Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandr...
09 April 2007
Coincidence? I Don't Think So....
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Last week I noted a highly partial piece of writing that leapt to Microsoft's defence over its dispute with European Commission. And w...
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