Travel has gotten in the way of my promised blog post on the "ODF, CDF, and Character Assassination," but in the meantime I’ve been having an interesting conversation with reader Yoon Kit on my previous post (referenced here by Peter Galli in ZDNet). Yoon questioned my assertion that, "Any policy [...]
I felt like I was reading a story from the future when I read this lead from a news article about a Microsoft exec. pleading why desktop software is still relevant:A top Microsoft executive defended desktop application software, the source of the company's revenue for three decades, arguing on Tuesday [...]
European governments are known for supporting green environmental policies, but it seems that they are now joining ACT's crusade to improve the Tech Environment as well. The Portuguese EU Presidency Forum "Financing Innovation – From Ideas to Market" has adopted the "Estoril Declaration." The goal of this Declaration sounds positively [...]
I (Izabela Kowalczuk, a Warsaw University law student and ACT's Polish intern) just came back to Washington, DC from the Economic Forum in Krynica, Poland the largest economic conference in Central and Eastern Europe. The Association for Competitive Technology, represented by Mike Sax, Braden Cox and me, created an entire [...]
What is the best way to promote the creation and adoption of new software and communications technologies? That was the weighty second panel of ACT's day-long innovation session at the Economic Forum 2007 in Krynica, Poland. All panelists agreed that the future of software innovation is a mixed one - [...]