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As the old joke goes, standards are wonderful things, that's why we have so many of them. But who would have thought that ETSI, the ...

Xiph.org has an interesting name and the following forthright self-description: Xiph.Org is a collection of open source, multimedia-related ...

This sounds great news for free software (and the world): China recently circulated a draft regulation regarding the use of patents in Chin...

It's no surprise that textbooks are being radically re-invented - after all, in the past they have been hideously expensive, which means...

Great news for ODF in Brazil: it's becoming the official format for storing government agency dox: Já no passado mês de Abril de 2008, ...

Sigh : the world is not so simple as “open” or “closed.” Most software has both open and closed elements, and thus falls along a linear spec...

On Open Enterprise blog .

One of the most heartening developments on the UK computing scene has been the evolution of BECTA, "the Government's lead agency fo...

On Open Enterprise blog .

Digital Majority News points us to a fine hidalgo asking a key question about the EU's policy on software standards: The 'European...

Andy Updegrove's Standards Blog is one of my favourites, because he clearly knows what he is talking about, and this means his analyses...

I've not written about the Rambus case before, because it seemed frankly rather dull. But I was wrong: there is an important principle ...

Recently I was bemused by Microsoft's espousal of ODF, and now here we have the company spreading more joy: The company on Monday is ex...

Although it's hard to tell from this singularly unhelpful graph , Firefox continues to storm away. According to these figures, it has n...