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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...

If ACTA was the biggest global story of 2012, more locally there's no doubt that the UK government's consultation on open standa...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the “ Making Data Real ”consultation, promising to post my response. I have to admit that replying ...

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...

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...

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

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 ...