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EMC lobbying dollars reached $730,000 in first quarter
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| EMC has been spending a pretty penny to lobby the US government in the first
| quarter. The storage vendor disclosed it payed out $730,000 wooing Washington
| in only three months — a personal record since it began disclosing its
| lobbying activities.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/04/emc_first_quarter_08_lobbying_dollars/
Funny picture.
UK petition on Hague Declaration
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| OpenOffice.org's John McCreesh tells us that the UK Prime Minister s Office
| has accepted an e-petition:
|
| "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to adopt the Hague
| Declaration of the Digital Standards Organisation."
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http://www.digistan.org/forum/t-64401/uk-petition-on-hague-declaration
UK residents can sign it. It takes 1 minute.
Recent:
Please Welcome Digistan
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| Standards and SocietyOn Wednesday, I introduced The Hague Declaration to
| those that visit this blog, promising to write again shortly to introduce the
| new organization that created the Declaration. That organization is called
| the Digital Standards Organization (Digistan, for short), and I'm pleased to
| say that I am one of its founders. In this entry, I'll give you my
| perceptions of what Digistan is all about, and what I hope it will
| accomplish.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080515060701633
Hague Declaration to be signed on 21 May in the Hague
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| The Hague Declaration calls on governments to:
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| 1. Procure only information technology that implements free and open
| standards;
| 2. Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open
| standards;
| 3. Use only free and open digital standards in their own activities.
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http://www.digistan.org/forum/t-59819/hague-declaration-to-be-signed-on-21-may-in-the-hague
Defining "open standards": The Digital Standards Organization (digistan.org)
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| In my essay "Is OpenDocument an Open Standard? Yes!", I addressed this
| problem of multiple different definitions by finding three widely-used
| definitions (Perens', Krechmer's, and the European Commission's) and merging
| them. After all, if a specification meets all three definitions of "open
| standard", then it's far more likely to be a true open standard. Problem is,
| with all those trees, it's hard to see the forest.
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http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2008/05/14/#open-standards-digistan
EU: Europarlement testing Ubuntu, OpenOffice and Firefox
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| The European Parliament's IT department is testing the use of GNU/Linux
| distribution Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Firefox and other Open Source applications,
| the British MEP James Nicholson explained last week in a letter to Italian
| MEP Marco Cappato.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7565
Is Microsoft Now Banned from EU Contracts?
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=697&blogid=14
EC probes OOXML standards-setting process
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| A spokesman for the European Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kroes, told
| The Register that regulators were continuing to scrutinise interoperability
| issues related to Microsoft’s products following complaints from the
| Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) group.
|
| As part of that process, the EC formally contacted a number of national
| standards bodies, including the Norwegian Standards Institute (NSI),
| requesting more details about possible irregularities in the OOXML
| standardisation process.
|
| [...]
|
| “It must be stressed that it is not the Commission's intention to influence
| the outcome of this process, but the Commission considers it essential to
| ensure that European competition law is not violated in the course of the
| standard setting process,” he said in an email to El Reg.
|
| In January the EC began formal anti-trust probes against Microsoft in two
| cases where it was alleged that the multinational firm had abused its strong
| market position. As part of the investigation into the first case, the
| Commission said that it would scrutinise OOXML on the grounds that the
| specification doesn't work with those of competitors.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/ooxml_ec_investigation_iso/
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