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Does Google need a standards office pronto?: Google is increasingly in the middle of multiple efforts like Android and standards development. The problem: Google doesn't have a centralized standards office to manage its efforts. According to open source consultant Stephen Walli, Google needs a standards office as its reach grows. Walli writes in a...; Tags: Google Inc., Standards Office, Walli, Team Management, Blogging, Management, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote: Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML voteAsk any lawyer[i]Ultimate question: Now that three formal appeals have been filed, is the Joint Technical Committee going to take them seriously?[/i]Well, we can start by asking "what happens if they don't?" We can look in the Directives for answers there, for instance...; Tags: ISO standards, Office Open XML, ISO, anti-MS, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-30
Torvalds criticizes patent trollers, Microsoft, Sun, virtualization craze: Linux creator Linus Torvalds blasted patent trollers, Microsoft, Sun and the virtualization craze in his second official communiqué to the public. And he said desktop Linux is going nowhere in market share. In a second Q&A podcast posted on the Linux Foundation site, Torvalds told his...; Tags: Desktop, Patent, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linus Torvalds, Torvalds, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-02-04
Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push: Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML pushHmmmmInteresting load of bunk.Funny, they could not even give one example of something in a legacydocument that cannot be translated to ODF. Nor could they give even one example of something required for MS Office that can not be supported by ODF.Statements like this show they...; Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office; Discussion threads 2008-01-29
Harry, the robotic bowling ball thrower: It's Saturday and you might plan to go play bowling this evening. But do you know that the design of bowling balls influences scores? This is why the United States Bowling Congress USBC has started a two-year study of bowling ball motion. USBC engineers have used a seven-foot tall robotic...; Tags: Lane, Ball Thrower, Super C.A.T.S. System, Games, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-01-26

Opera: Acid or no, its Microsoft antitrust complaint goes forward: Now that Microsoft has passed the Acid2 Browser test, is Opera Software satisfied? If dropping its antitrust complaint filed last week with the European Commission is the measure, the answer is no. I asked Opera whether Microsoft's announcement on December 19 that an internal Internet Explorer 8...; Tags: Opera Software, Antitrust, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Web Browsers, Quality, Internet, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-12-19
Opera: Setting the record straight on Microsoft and Web standards: Not surprisingly, Opera Software took issue with my blog post yesterday on "Why Opera's antitrust complaint against Microsoft is a bad idea." My premise: Whatever you think of Opera's attempt to get another antitrust court to revisit whether or not Microsoft should be allowed to bundle...; Tags: Web, Opera Software, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Standards, Web Browsers, Quality, Channel Management, Internet, Business Operations, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-12-14
Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translators: Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translatorsAll part of the planLook like you are cooperating, put enough bugs in the translators so they don't work and people will quit using them and just you MS format. Look back at history and you will find this pattern over and over...; Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, translator, Microsoft Corp., De Icaza; Discussion threads 2007-12-04
Insanity and the standards process: Insanity and the standards processInteresting...Did they to your knowledge ever fix up the "man in the middle" flaw?Thanks Jeremey! Almost nobody saw the last minute MS dirty tricks comming,and hopefully, nobody will be fooled next February or whenever the last vote that would possibly allow OOXML be fast tracked.There have...; Tags: Quality, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Servers, Microsoft Corp., ECMA, OOXML, standards, Microsoft Office; Discussion threads 2007-09-17
Exploding heads in the open source community: Late last week, Tim O'Reilly announced at his company's open source convention that Microsoft would submit its shared source licenses to the Open Source Initiative OSI to be certified as true open source licenses. It's a curious notion, but makes a lot of sense. Microsoft probably wants to find a...; Tags: Open Source, Microsoft; Blog posts 2007-08-02
Hanrahan hire shows true Microsoft weakness: Microsoft's hire of Tom Hanrahan right, formerly director of engineering for the Linux Foundation (and before that of the OSDL, one of its predecessors) says a lot about the company's true open source situation.Hanrahan will now be running Microsoft's interoperability lab, which it set up after its Novell deal. His immediate...; Tags: support, Strategy, Microsoft, Linux Server OS, Linux Desktop OS, Linux, General; Blog posts 2007-06-11
SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA Consortium's advocacy objectives with OMG CEO Richard Soley: Read a full transcript of the discussion.When the hype curve descends, advocacy takes over. And so it is with the SOA Consortium, formed earlier this year to establish SOA as a business productivity benefit and to glean proven adoption paths and proof-points from primarily end-users and enterprises. The advocacy group's...; Tags: Agile Development, IT Management, ITIL, Podcasts, SOA, SOA architect, Software Development, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-05-25
Crushed by the Wheels of Industry: Crushed by the Wheels of IndustryIG you had any senseAnd were a decent Uncle you would have gotten her MS Office 07 Teacher / Student edition instead if loading her machine with all that junk.Message has been deleted.I thought Novell == wicked?Kinda ironic that he resorted to using a tool...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, industry; Discussion threads 2007-05-14
Linux power lunch: Debian founder visits Microsoft: Ian Murdock, the chief technology officer of the recently formed Linux Foundation created from the merger of ODL and the Free Standards Group is set to address a group of Microsoft employees on February 20. The subject of Murdocks "Invited Speaker Series" talk: The Debian Linux distribution. ...; Tags: Corporate strategy, Linux, Novell; Blog posts 2007-02-20
ODF vs. OOXML - the way I see it: In a blog post on Friday, I asked in the title whether ODF has sufficient detail after discovering a post by Miguel de Icazas on the subject of ODF vs. OOXML. The point from that post I keyed on was that 6,000 pages isnt a problem so long as those...; Tags: General, IT Management, ODF, Office, Office 2007, Open Source, PC Forum, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-02-19
Adobe to send PDF to standards group: Adobe to send PDF to standards groupAbout time...Sometimes it takes a while for companies to make the right decision. Occasionally it takes prodding from competition because prodding from the customer base just doesn't get through. After a lot of years, Adobe finally got this one right.; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF; Discussion threads 2007-01-30
News to know: IE 8; Vista; Yahoo & Hillary: Notable headlines:Microsoft starts gathering IE 8.Adobe to send PDF to standards group. Adobe releasing PDF spec to ISO embracing the Open Web. Adobe statement. iTunes fertile new ground: PDFcasting. Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it.Open-source identity projects connect with Microsoft. IBM contributes ID software to open source security...; Tags: General, Microsoft Windows Vista; Blog posts 2007-01-29
Linux Foundation to be more like Apache: Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, says his vision for the group is to make it like Apache, or Mozilla, or Eclipse. The CEA is right out.And anyone can use the penguin. Zemlin comes to this work from the software industry, having worked at Covalent and then the...; Tags: General, Implementations, Linux, Legal, Linux Desktop OS, Linux Server OS, education, management, business models, Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation; Blog posts 2007-01-22
Linux Foundation: Strength in numbers: The top two Linux organizations announced today they are merging to form a new organization called The Linux Foundation. The work of the Open Source Development Labs OSDL and the Free Standards Group FSG will be continued by their successor. This includes:Sponsoring key Linux developersProviding legal servicesStandardizing APIs for Linux...; Tags: General, Community, Linux, Linux Foundation; Blog posts 2007-01-22
Linux matures (and goes way corporate) as OSDL and FSF merge: Linux matures and goes way corporate as OSDL and FSF mergeMaybe I'm missing something, butLast time I checked the FSF Free Software Foundation is not the same as FSG Free Standards Group.Don't feel too bad, looks like Dana Blankenhorn madeLooks like Dana Blankenhorn made the same mistake. You both about...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Computer programming, computer, open source, Free Software Foundation, Open Source Development Labs, Linux; Discussion threads 2007-01-22