Category Archives: Open Standards
OLPC
MIT’s One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC), i.e. the famous $100 laptop, is now planning to use LinuxBIOS! Check out the proposed hardware specs. This is major : there are currently no laptops that can run LinuxBIOS. If this happens, … Continue reading
network neutrality
The Google blog has a short entry today about Vint Cerf’s excellent testimony [PDF] before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. He was speaking in defense of the crucial network neutrality principle. Go Vint! In other news, … Continue reading
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Doc Searls on the Producer Electronics Revolution
The first in a series of reports titled “The Producer Electronics Revolution, Part I” by Doc Searls is an excellent read, and it touches on a lot of the pressure we’ve been seeing to close and lock down our open … Continue reading
IE Chauvinism
Paul Murphy asks what the costs of IE/Windows chauvinism are. For me, that’s quite simple – any organisation that is so braindead that it only supports IE and/or Windows clients loses my business. Can’t buy airline tickets on your site … Continue reading
Open Document
So Microsoft is working really hard to derail the Massachusetts efforts to adopt a truely open standard for its documents. Bravely, Massachusetts decided in September to adopt the newly finalized OpenDocument standard for all its office documents, ensuring that the … Continue reading
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