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18 April 2012
BSA Wants Business Software Licences To Be Checked in VAT Audits
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In my last post, I wrote about my Freedom of Information request to find out how Microsoft had been lobbying against true open standards...
What One Line of Code can Teach Us
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Light Blue Touchpaper is a blog written by researchers in the Security Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory (don't...
How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards I
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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...
11 April 2012
Of Microsoft, Netscape, Patents and Open Standards
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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...
15 March 2012
Microsoft's Open Standards Fairy Tale
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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...
02 March 2012
EC Defends Interoperability, but Misses Bigger Picture
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Here's an interesting move from the European Commission: On Open Enterprise blog .
28 February 2012
UK Open Standards Consultation Submission
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Somewhat belatedly (apologies), here is the second part of my analysis of the UK government's Open Standards consultation. As well as...
22 February 2012
Open Season on Open Standards
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The increasingly heated debates about the traditionally dull area of computer standards is testimony to the rise of open source. For the ...
09 January 2012
UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed
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Just before Christmas I wrote a fairly strongly-worded condemnation of what I saw as the imminent betrayal of open standards by the UK Ca...
04 January 2012
Of Open Source and the European Commission
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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...
22 December 2011
UK Government Open Standards: The Great Betrayal of 2012
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Back in February of this year, I wrote about PPN 3/11, a Cabinet Office “Procurement Policy Note - Use of Open Standards when specifying ...
19 December 2011
Apple Abuses Patent System Again To Obstruct W3C Open Standard
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Apple has been garnering quite a reputation for itself as a patent bully, for example using patents around the world in an attempt to sto...
28 September 2011
Openness: An Open Question
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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...
12 September 2011
UK Government: Open Standards Must be RF, not FRAND
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As regular readers of this column will know, one of the key issues for open source - and openness in general - is what is meant by open s...
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...
02 July 2011
The Rise and Fall and Rise of HTML
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HTML began life as a clever hack of a pre-existing approach. As Tim Berners-Lee explains in his book, “Weaving the Web”: Since I knew it wou...
10 June 2011
Interoperability and Open Standards: Help Make It Happen
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In a previous column, I mentioned that I was invited to talk at a meeting at the European Parliament about innovation prizes last week. That...
31 March 2011
UK Government Promises to Go Open - Yet Again
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Sometimes it seems like I've written the same story about UK government IT plans again and again. You know the one: after years of empty...
30 March 2011
Kafka Alive and Well, Living in Switzerland
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You may have come across this sad tale : According to the Swiss Open Systems User Group, /ch/openSwitzerland, the Swiss Federal Supreme Cour...
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18 March 2011
Open Source's Kith and Kindred
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One of the things that interests me is the way that the ideas underlying open source are being applied in other fields. That's something...
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