For as long as there have been Linux developers and fans, they have spent an extraordinary amount of time philosophizing on "why Linux has yet to take off on the desktop." This year, however, that favorite pastime was threatened. In May, Dell announced that it would begin shipping Ubuntu-based PCs [...]
When and how does ICT interoperability drive innovation? This is the subject of a new paper on interoperability by the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society (the webcast of yesterday's launch event at the Reagan Building is now available). Co-authors Urs Gasser and John Palfrey have published a thoughtful [...]
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 [...]