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 [...]
Thomas Vinje, the longtime legal hitman for anti-Microsoft front groups, used the forum of a United Nations conference on Internet Governance to try to re-launch a baseless campaign against Microsoft today. He urged government regulators to start new competition cases against Microsoft becaus of the growing use of Microsoft’s .NET [...]
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 [...]
But, we TOLD you so. Ever since the debate over open document format policies began in Massachusetts, ACT has advocated goals-based policies rather than proscriptive policies mandating specific technologies. The best policies for ensuring interoperability, competition, and long-term document access are those that create a flexible framework that allows for [...]