Actually, at 6:45AM by my calculations. According to ZDNet's Dan Farber, quoting an IBM whitepaper, by 2010, "the world’s information base will be doubling in size every 11 hours." Every 11 hours? That's quite a statement. Let's see what this … [Continue reading] about The World Ends on May 1st, 2010
How Standards Bring Consumers Choice
This is an essay on the choices that standards enable. By laying out a framework for ensuring interoperable, interchangeable and substitutable components, standards make it easier for you, the consumer, to shop with confidence and take full … [Continue reading] about How Standards Bring Consumers Choice
Once More unto the Breach
Stephen Walli has a blog, Once More unto the Breach. He writes mainly about open standards/open source, with a solid business/legal angle. He also has hands-on experience with standards development in the IEEE and ISO with POSIX, and an interesting … [Continue reading] about Once More unto the Breach
Here today, gone tomorrow
The Ecma OOXML web site has been updated. The version of the OOXML specification which was submitted to JTC1 is not longer there. Instead we have a new version, generated on February 1st. I have no idea if the content of the new version differs … [Continue reading] about Here today, gone tomorrow
Merely a flesh wound?
The subject is the 19 contradictions JTC1 member countries submitted at the end of their 30-day contradiction ballot. Andy Updegrove broke the story. Since that post came out there has been some interesting spin placed on these results, spin that … [Continue reading] about Merely a flesh wound?