In early June, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on European Standardisation intending to “accelerate, simplify and modernise standardisation procedures”. In this document, the Commission has singled out ICT as a sector where standards are important, playing a role in stimulating innovation, cutting administrative burdens and encouraging [...]
The European Commission has today adopted the Communication Towards Interoperability for European Public Services. In response, Association for Competitive Technology president offered his support for the measure: “The notion of “open specifications” included in the European Interoperability Framework allows for open source and proprietary software to compete on a level [...]
Caution: because I am talking about code libraries, this discussion will be technical - a combination of the worst of geek and lawyer-speak. Sorry.I had a discussion with a colleague yesterday about Apple’s choice of licenses used for open-sourcing of its Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) concurrency framework, which is a [...]
Today’s tough economy creates fiscal pressures for state and federal government budgets. Resourceful policymakers are increasingly looking for ways to reduce or at least maximize their information technology (IT) spending, and utilizing free software and services is one possible direction. But what does “free” really mean?
Vivek Kundra spoke to a 150+ crowd at a Northern Virginia Technology Counsel event on Saturday morning in Tysons Corner. He has his speech crafted pretty well at this point, but did have an interesting response to a question on open standards from someone who said he was affiliated with [...]
