Against my better judgement, I decided to engage on a couple of recent posts/articles attacking our criticism (and that of BSA) of the European Interoperability Framework(EIF). The conversations have been interesting, to say the least. Our statement has been covered by the Matt Asay's Open Road Blog @ CNET, 451 [...]
Last week, we put out a statement on the European Commission's most recent draft of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), which is focused on the noble goal of improving data sharing between national governments and the European Union itself. It was quoted in a story about the EIF by IP-Watch [...]
ZDNet UK's knowledgeable security blogger, Tom Espiner, has posted a piece about the responses of ACT and Red Hat to ISO's recent approval of OOXML as an open standard for electronic documents. Tom seems to take the position of Red Hat as the right honest gospel, not wasting a single [...]
For months, IBMers like Bob Sutor and Rob Weir have been making outraged noises regarding perceived ethics issues surrounding the OOXML vote. They have been ‘shocked, SHOCKED’ by all the arm twisting and lobbying surrounding the vote. In fact Sutor went so far as to say “… if you see [...]
Earlier today, Microsoft made an announcement so big it nearly blew up their conference call system. Microsoft executives Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia, and Brad Smith participated in a press conference call where they announced a new set of Interoperability Principles. While the specifics will take a while to [...]