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Early Look At IE9 for Developers
We’re just about a month after the Windows 7 launch, and wanted to show an early look at some of the work underway on Internet Explorer 9.
At the PDC today, in addition to demonstrating some of the progress on performance and interoperable standards, we showed how IE and Windows will make the power of PC hardware available to web developers in the browser. Specifically, we demonstrated hardware-accelerated rendering of all graphics and text in web pages, something that other browsers don’t do today. Web site developers will see performance gains and other benefits without having to re-write their sites.
Introducing the Open Web Foundation Agreement - Open Web Foundation
The Open Web Foundation was founded to help developer communities collaborate and share technical innovation on the web, bringing to the world of formats and protocols the same successful grassroots approaches established by the open source community. Modeled after the Apache Software Foundation and Creative Commons, the Open Web Foundation seeks to facilitate the creation and implementation of specifications with legal agreements that make such work simple, safe, and sustainable.
McKinsey: What Matters: Creative Commons: Enabling the next level of innovation
Here’s a thought experiment: try to imagine what it would have been like to create Google before the era of the Internet and open standards. You would probably have had to pay millions of dollars to create the necessary software on a proprietary operating system. The effort would have required a huge team of people taking many years. Since Google is a search engine, it most likely would have been given to the phone company to design and run. If you were using X.25, the international networking standard (the Internet equivalent of its time), you would have been charged for each packet of information that you sent or received, in a network in which each network operator had a bilateral agreement with every other network operator. This total project probably would have taken a decade, cost a billion dollars, and not have worked very well.
EU waffles on open standards in interoperability guideline - Ars Technica
The European Union is drafting a set of guidelines that encourage government agencies to improve technical interoperability. These guidelines are being documented in the European Interoperability Framework for European Public Services (EIF) which is currently in the draft stage. A recent version of the draft reveals that changes to the text have weakened the document's emphasis on open standards.
Sun's MySQL fork survival theory ripped • The Register
If Oracle screws up MySQL, the community will fork and the database will live on under another name - leaving Oracle high and dry.
At least that's the open-source theory. And it's a theory Sun Microsystems' executives past and present have recited to placate those concerned by the prospect Oracle, the number-one database vendor, could end up owning the industry's leading open-source database.
Guidelines on horizontal cooperation agreements
EUROPA - Summaries of EU legislation - To help companies determine on a case-by-case basis whether their cooperation agreements are compatible with the competition rules by providing an analytical framework for the most common types of horizontal cooperation.
Wi-Fi Is About to Get a Whole Lot Easier - BusinessWeek
Going Wi-Fi is about to get a lot easier. For many consumers, setting up an in-home Wi-Fi connection point is something of a hassle. Before you can enjoy the convenience of logging onto the Web without cables and wires, you need to hook up some gear and create your own "hotspot."
iTWire - Industry heavyweights demand fewer standards bodies
The CTOs of some of the word's leading IT&T vendors - including Cisco and Microsoft - and some of the largest telcos - including BT, NTT and Telstra - have joined forces in a bid to rationalise what they see as an excess of different, and sometimes competing, organisations developing IT&T standards.
W3C sidesteps Apple over widget-patent • The Register
The W3C has spent the last three months poring over Apple's patent on remote updating, and the web standards organization thinks the patent can be avoided by careful wording and tweaking a couple of APIs.
On the future of Open Source thought leadership | Tech Broiler | ZDNet.com
My last article on Richard M. Stallman’s verbal attack on Miguel de Icaza and his continuing crusade against anyone who doesn’t fit the mold of the Free Software community seems to have struck a chord with those who sympathize with that movement’s ideals to the point of driving them to utter histrionics, unjustified hero worship and irrational thought.
Sources: 'Light Peak' technology not Apple idea | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News
"We'll be evaluating and looking at it as it comes forward," said Jeff Ravencraft, the USB Implementers Forum president and chairman. "We'll continue to evaluate and work with Jason's team."
Rooms - When Railroads Designed Their Own Version of Time Zones - NYTimes.com
Taking the broad view of things — or, admittedly, the very broad view — the history of post-Civil War America might be read as the history of expanding corporatization. After all, starting with the victory of Northern industrialists over Southern planters, Big Business has increasingly put its stamp on national matters, from foreign policy and presidential politics to higher education.
SSRN-The Transaction Costs Perspective on Standards as a Source of Trade and Productivity Growth by Frank Den Butter, Stefan Groot, Faroek Lazrak
This paper discusses the design, implementation and use of standards from the perspective of transaction costs economics. A proper design and implementation of standards may lead to a considerable reduction of transaction costs, which enhances trade and, consequently, economic welfare. A major example is the use of containers, which has drastically changed the worldwide transport infrastructure, and lowered the costs of transport of goods considerably. The example of containers also shows that network externalities play a major role in the use of standards, and that, on the other hand, worldwide standards with large sunk investment costs may lead to a lock-in. This may call for government intervention in the design and use of standards, and in the transition processes to new standards. The paper provides ample further examples of standards and on the role of the government, or clubs, with respect to these standards.
IETF - What makes a good protocol
The Internet community has specified a large number of protocols to date, and these protocols have achieved varying degrees of success. Based on case studies, this document attempts to ascertain factors that contribute to or hinder a protocol's success. It is hoped that these observations can serve as guidance for future protocol work.
Law Firm Oregon and Washington, Schwabe, Williamson and Wyatt, Attorneys at Law.
Trade organizations, which are governed and directed by competitors and potential competitors, have long been recognized as having the potential to foster anti-competitive behavior in violation of state and federal antitrust laws. In March of 2009, the Federal Trade Commission announced an action that highlights this risk and suggests steps that trade organizations should take to prevent antitrust violations.
The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real - Anil Dash
Pushbutton is a name for what I believe will be an upgrade for the web, where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience, using free and open technologies at low cost and without relying on any single company like Twitter or Facebook. The pieces of this platform have just come together to enable a whole set of new features and applications that would have been nearly impossible for an average web developer to build in the past.
Apache and the future of open-source licensing | The Open Road - CNET News
If most developers contribute to open-source projects because they want to, rather than because they're forced to, why do we have the GNU General Public License?
Free Software Foundation
That's the question that hit me last night as I tried to sleep in the shadow of Richard Stallman's MIT. Stallman, of course, originated the GPL, a brilliant way to turn copyright on its head in order to force software to remain open.
White Papers - Kavi
Kavi white papers have been written to help guide you in setting up and running your standards setting organization. Advice in these white papers is based on many years experience working with a wide range of organizations.
An epitaph for the Web standard, XHTML 2 | Webware - CNET
XHTML 2, a technology intended to build a more powerful Web from the ground up, met a quiet end last week, spotlighting the difficulties of standardization in a fast-moving Internet. Introduced in 2002, XHTML 2 was a centerpiece of standards work at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
But incompatibility with the existing Web and a direction at odds with Web developers' desires doomed it to a slow demise. On Thursday, after a long reconciliation with browser makers who'd struck off in a different direction, the W3C announced that it will wind down development of XHTML 2 this year.
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