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An emerging understanding of Open Standards
Open Standards have been somewhat of a holy grail for some time now. Interoperability and vendor-independence, the IT industries’ equivalent of eternal life, are the prize for those who find the grail that are Open Standards. This conquest took decades, … Continue reading
Tagged EU, IGF, Open Standards, UN, WIPO
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Groklaw article: Microsoft, antitrust and innovation
[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070923170905803] Microsoft, antitrust and innovation — by Georg C. F. Greve If one were to believe Microsoft, antitrust law is for sore losers who are too lazy to innovate, and the decision of the European Court of Justice against Microsoft … Continue reading
Tagged Antitrust, EU, Microsoft, Open Standards
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So this is what hit Microsoft…
The past two months have been interesting in the Chinese sense. A primary culprit of that was Microsoft’s failed attempt to push their proprietary MS-OOXML format through ISO. But there were also talks and meetings with ministers (see [1][2]) to … Continue reading
Tagged Antitrust, EU, Free Software, Fun, Microsoft, Open Standards, UN, WIPO
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European Commission seeking position on DRM (and it doesn’t look good)
[ copied here from DRM.info, original posting: “European Commission seeking position on DRM” ] IP-Watch.org reports that “EU Online Content Stakeholders Debate DRM“, which demonstrates the need for a much more informed debate on Digital Restrictions Management. On the one … Continue reading
SELF Kick-off Conference in The Hague
Education and science are central issues for Free Software. So when Free Software Foundation Europe was approached by Wouter Tebbens from the Internet Society in the Netherlands for a project on education in and about Free Software and Open Standards, … Continue reading
Tagged Conference, EU, Free Software
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Antitrust hearing, day 4 and 5: bringing out brass knuckles
Normally one might have used the phrase “the gloves are coming off” to describe the what happened on the last two days in court, but that would have implied the gloves were somehow on the days before. So it is … Continue reading
Antitrust hearing, day 3: Microsoft opens interoperability side of case
Todays opening of the second part of the Microsoft antitrust case at the European Court in Luxembourg made a furious start with several hours of Microsoft presentation. Mr Forrester opened with the heartbreaking example of an Irish TV guide called … Continue reading
Microsoft Antitrust Trial: BSD does not run on PCs and more nonsense…
It is not every day that you get to see a European Court grand jury of thirteen judges. Given the importance of this case, such a high level of legal authority does indeed seem necessary: This may be the last … Continue reading
ECIS: Microsoft antitrust ruling should apply to all areas
The Microsoft antitrust case has received a lot of attention from the press, as you could also see in JJ’s press review. And yesterday, David Gow published an excellent piece on the case in UK’s Guardian, titled ‘A question of … Continue reading
The invention of cookyright
German cook asking to introduce copyright-like right for recipes. Remember the parody about Cold Pizza Piracy? Here is another one, only this time it is not a joke. Imagine yourself in the year 2025, you open your virtual mail box … Continue reading
Tagged Church of IPR, EU, Fun, Idiocies, Politics
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