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• A proprietary Web? Blame the W3C 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  " ... Using a term like “free and open” is such utopian propaganda. After all how could you be against “free and open” right? A brief look at the web standards groups might illustrate the real root of the problem though."
• From Live Mesh to the Open Mesh 3 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Marc Canter has written a series of blog posts outlining the issues, constructs, technologies, and standards required to build out an"open mesh."
• Simon Phipps was right 5 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "You said a standard's process is a crucial aspect of the standard's product, and a process that is not open cannot be trusted to produce a product that can be considered open..."
• LV2 audio plugin standard released 7 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  "LV2 is a standard for plugins and matching host applications, mainly targeted at audio processing and generation .... LV2 is a simple but extensible successor of LADSPA, intended to address the limitations of LADSPA which many applications have outgrown. While LADSPA has been quite successful with many plugins and hosts, it is quite limited and can't be extended without breaking existing implementations. LV2 in contrast is designed with extensibility in mind right from start.""
• Static on the Dream Phone 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  "This morning, the New York Times published my op-ed about the need for an open phone ecosystem under the title Static on the Dream Phone. I had originally titled it Openness is not a fig leaf. In it, I argue for Verizon (and by extension other major cell carriers) to embrace the vision of Google's Open Handset Alliance .... "
• Fallout from Office Open XML vote continues 10 months, 1 week ago
  
  "Work in the ISO/IEC committee that addresses document formats has come to a complete halt .... "
• New PDF security exploit emerges 11 months, 1 week ago
  
  Thus far it's in the hands of a white hat hacker who has reported it to Adobe. But it could spell bad news if the bad guys find it before Adobe fixes it.
• Poland votes for Microsoft OOXML 12 months ago
  
  Technical Committee 182 decided on August 30th to accept Microsoft format Office Open XML as an ISO standard. Another committee already voted against OOXML last week, but the KT 182 decision is the final vote of Poland (most likely).
• Two document standards means continued interoperability gap 12 months ago
  
  "A recent News.com article by Martin LaMonica reports on the ODF vs OOXML war. The report mentions the arguments over one standard vs two competing standards. But shouldn't we be trying to solve - not prolong - the interoperability gap?"
• SIS nixes OOXML approval 12 months ago
  
  "The Swedish Institute of Standards (SIS) has invalidated the vote that controversially approved the OOXML standard at a meeting this week. The organisation issued a statement saying that it had seen evidence suggesting one of the participants in the workgroup had broken the rules and voted with more than one vote .... "
• Open XML standard war grows heated 12 months ago
  
  The day is fast approaching when the comment and voting period for ISO/IEC DIS 29500, the draft ISO specification based upon Microsoft's Office Open XML formats, will either be approved or not. As Sept. 2 comes closer, Microsoft appears to be stuffing the ballot boxes of some countries' ISO organizations while open-source and standard organizations are firing back with furious words.
• Single Sign-on Deployers Weigh Concordia's Work 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Big customers spell out their single sign-on system interoperability needs to ID metasystem purveyors in San Francisco.
• The case against OOXML 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  "Rob Weir is explaining in 10 pages why the proposed OOXML standard should be rejected, and why it conflicts with existing ISO standards..."