There are many delicious morsels in the many exhibits in the Iowa Comes v. Microsoft case. Maybe that is why the official website containing the exhibits was taken down within hours of the case being settled? Luckily websites like Slated Antitrust … [Continue reading] about Microsoft on Standards
Adobe to Standardize PDF
According to the press release, it sounds like Adobe will submit their PDF 1.7 specification to AIIM, where it will be reviewed and refined before submission to ISO, likely to TC 171 . AIIM, if the name isn't familiar to you, is the Association for … [Continue reading] about Adobe to Standardize PDF
A Review of the Wikipedia Article on ODF
As I had done last week with the Wikipedia article on Office Open XML (OOXML), I have taken a read through the article on OpenDocument Format (ODF). My aim was to do some fact checking and make some suggestions on some additional references that … [Continue reading] about A Review of the Wikipedia Article on ODF
Crocodile Tears
By now everyone on the planet with an internet connection knows about Rick Jelliffe, the blogger Microsoft offered to pay to make the Office Open XML Wikipedia page “more objective”. (It is unclear what criteria Microsoft uses to determine which … [Continue reading] about Crocodile Tears
Linus’s Law Applied to Standards Review
Eric Raymond's famous formulation in the Cathedral and the Bazaar was “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”. Since Code is text and Spec is text, so it is reasonable to ask if this same law might apply to reviewing a specification as … [Continue reading] about Linus’s Law Applied to Standards Review