To follow up on my previous post on DVDs and ODF, here are a few of the lessons we can draw from the evolution of video recording formats. Perhaps the most important one is that: unlike the Highlander, there CAN be MORE than one. 1. Multiple Standards Can Live Side [...]
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 [...]