At the beginning of the month I was writing about the idea of IP being the foundation for collaboration . Any reading about IP that I have done in the past points out the need to have all parts of the IP system in place for any one of them to work. Strong...

Today an open letter was posted to the interop site at Microsoft . Yesterday, an open letter was posted from Sun , which I commented on in a blog post yesterday. IBM delivered a new product suite to market in the same market segment. Things are getting...

I appreciate the fact that Jonathan Schwartz of SUN has jumped into the doc format discussion with a well thought out discussion. I think there are some important issues raised, control of your data, long-term archival of data, and most importantly, the...

Sometimes you just have to write a response to a comment up here at the top level of the blog rather than down in the depths of the comments section. Matt Asay took my last posting and went to town on it (although he had a more thoughtful approach to...

Lately I have been wondering about the relationship of IP to the ideas of protection vs. collaboration. I know that everyone is super clear that IP rights protect the IP-holder. In other words, the system grants a right and then provides an enforcement...

If you haven't read this, it will be thought provoking at the very least. I've known Jonathan for a very long time and find this posting to be a good one. Read it here.

My last blog posting was in a tone that was a bit too snarky for my tastes. I was writing late, and tired - and that is never a good combination. Readers of the blog have, in the past, asked me to maintain a more level tone given the issues I'm addressing...

Well, the big news for the day is the discussion about the ISO/IEC standardization of Open XML. A few things to remember as the IBM spin machine kicks into full gear tomorrow: Ecma 376, Open XML Document Format, is an international standard and...

Thank you to those of you who have been pinging me and asking if I am ok due to my latest hiatus from blogging. The answer is yes, I'm fine just that my prioritization of time is an ongoing challenge, and the blog is my most frequent "I'll get to that...