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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

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Microsoft and open source: Frost sightings in hell

(This is a guest post by Stephen Walli, a software consultant specializing in open-source, and a former Microsoft program manager for the Shared Source implementation of the ECMA Common Language Infrastructure.)Bill Hilf, Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy, announced two things last week at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in...

Tags: Shared Source, Linux, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-08-03

Are Microsoft's patent lawyers really this dumb?

Are Microsoft's patent lawyers playing possum? Or are they really as clueless about what makes open-source software tick as they seem? Consider the latest patent-related statement Microsoft published to its Web site on July 5 a statement claiming it is not party to the GPLv3 and is...

Tags: GPL, Novell Inc., Patent, Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-07-06

Microsoft submits XPS alternative to PDF to ECMA for standardization

Like it has done with its Open XML specification, Microsoft is pushing its XML Paper Specification XPS alternative to PDF through the standards bodies. And just like the case with Open XML, Microsoft's competitors are lining up to diss Redmond's standards moves.Even Microsoft's critics admit they don't like the "heavy-handed"...

Tags: Windows client, Vista, Office 2007, Office, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-02

Why Microsoft should open-source SQL Server and SharePoint

Why Microsoft should open-source SQL Server and SharePointAnd that makes MS money how???Hmmm, lets see, sell it for several thousand dollars including cals or give it away in the hopes of MS abandoning being a software company and morphing into some sort of service company? (Like that has worked...

Tags: Enterprise software, Databases, SQL Server 2005 Express, server, Microsoft Corp., open source, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2007-01-18

Why Microsoft should open-source SQL Server and SharePoint

Stephen Walli, the former Microsoft exec turned open-source proponent, is at it again. This time, the former Softie is making a case for why Microsoft should consider open-sourcing some of its crown jewels, including SQL Server and SharePoint. And hes got a few reasons that might make even...

Tags: Database, SQL Server, Corporate strategy, Legal, SharePoint Server, Linux, Stephen Walli

Blog posts 2007-01-18

Microsoft to dump Longhorn, license MacOS X

Microsoft to dump Longhorn, license MacOS XMicrosoft *HAS* adopted GPLhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/productinfo/features/[i]Powerful SDK Use the software development kit SDK, which supports more than 1,900 UNIX APIs and migration tools (conforming to the IEEE 1003.1-1990 standard), such as make, rcs, yacc, lex, cc, c89, nm, strip,[/i][b] gbd, as well as the gcc, g++,...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Longhorn, GNU, SFU, GNU Project, Interix

Discussion threads 2005-06-05