24 June 2008
A Macro Question About Microsoft And Standards - Oh Yeah - And Is Microsoft Really Committed to Open XML?
A colleague of mine, Stuart McKee, sat on a panel recently during a Red Hat event. His comments have drawn some attention, and now some FUD that I really feel needs to be addressed. First of all, you can see the coverage here , here , here , and here Read More...
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28 May 2008
Strategic Use of Collaborative Development in South Africa - Follow Up
Last week I wrote a blog entry stemming from my experience in South Africa and my impressions about the way the OSS preference policy is being considered. What has come of it is a string of rather pointed comments questioning my intelligence and calling Read More...
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21 May 2008
Open XML, ODF, PDF, and XPS in Office
Clearly the Press Announcement today from Microsoft will bring about another wave of discourse on the future of document formats. The really short version of this announcement is that Office is going to support ODF, PDF, and XPS in the product directly Read More...
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19 May 2008
The Politics of OSS Still Overshadow The Benefits of Collaborative Development
It has now been almost three years since I stepped away from working daily on open source opportunities for Microsoft. I've watched the team that took on Shared Source morph it into some extremely positive collaborative work that is exactly what OSS is Read More...
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23 April 2008
Participation in standards...
Just a quick note today. I am on the road meeting with MS people and later this week doing a bunch of external outreach work in South Africa as well. During the last few months there has been a good deal of rumblings about participation in committees, Read More...
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19 April 2008
IP, RAND, Standards, OSP, ISP - the conversation continues...
There have been numerous comments to my last blog posting, as well as a long response from Groklaw. Overall I am encouraged by the conversation as a whole because I think it is touching on some foundational issues. One of the most challenging aspects Read More...
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15 April 2008
More Open XML Discussion - more misunderstandings about standards and IP
There is much to talk about based on what has been happening in the discussion of Open XML these days. First, ISO has posted a FAQ about 29500. The approach taken in the FAQ is both direct and simplified. The rabbit hole on standards goes deep indeed, Read More...
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10 April 2008
Open XML - SC34 Maintenance Agreement
Throughout the months leading up to the BRM and then following it, there was discussion over the future maintenance of the specification. Rather than recapitulate the results of the last SC 34 meeting, let me just point you to Alex Brown's blog . For Read More...
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08 April 2008
Texas Legislature - Electronic Documents Hearing
On Wednesday April 9, the Texas House of Representatives Government Reform Committee will be hearing testimony regarding electronic documents. The notice for the hearing states that the committee is looking to hear about: Research, investigate, and make Read More...
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08 April 2008
More Protocol Documentation - Interop Principles Commitment
Just a quick note. MS is continuing to follow-through on the interop principles commitment made earlier this year. MS announced that >14,000 pages of preliminary documentation of client/server protocols has been posted to the web. The documentation Read More...
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07 April 2008
Open XML - Where The Rubber Meets The Road
After so much prognostication about standards in the abstract, it struck me today that it's worth taking a moment to look at Open XML through a different lens. Does it make a difference for people who are using it? Is it doing what it was supposed to Read More...
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04 April 2008
van den Beld Post & Participation - Open XML continued
The complaints keep rolling in on Groklaw about the outcome from Open XML. ***UPDATE #2: I went out to dinner and have been thinking a great deal about this. I do hold an opinion on this, but I think it is reasonable that people who read my blog expect Read More...
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01 April 2008
The Process Challenge - A Predictable Path
***Updated April 7, April 8*** In light of the approval of Open XML as an international standard (see the ISO press release here ), there are a few countries in which process issues are being raised. This blog post will act as repository of the challenges Read More...
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01 April 2008
IS29500 - Open XML Is An International Standard
ISO has distributed the results of the Open XML vote to national bodies (**UPDATED) resulting in leaked information - but now confirmed by ISO in a press release . DIS 29500 has become IS 29500. In regular person speak – Open XML was adopted as an international Read More...
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28 March 2008
Building Bridges to other XML-based Formats
I have repeatedly made the argument that it is bad logic that leads you to the conclusion that there should be only one document format. If you value innovation in document creation, and you want to see applications continue to advance rapidly, and you Read More...
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