Standards to boost innovation and competitiveness
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| Standardisation can make an important contribution to the development of
| sustainable industrial policy, unlock the potential of innovative markets and
| strengthen the position of European economy through more efficient
| capitalising of its knowledge basis. These are the main conclusions of a
| European Commission communication “Towards an increased contribution from
| standardisation to innovation in Europe” published today. It identifies the
| most important challenges faced, presents concrete objectives for
| standardisation and the use of standards, and consolidates on-going efforts
| and proposed measures to be launched both by relevant stakeholders and by the
| Commission. The communication identifies key elements for focusing EU
| standardisation policy on innovation such as commitment to market-led
| standardisation and to the voluntary use of standards, inclusion of new
| knowledge in standards or access to standardisation of all interested
| stakeholders, in particular small and medium enterprises, but also consumers
| and researchers.
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http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/422&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&;
Samba: EC ruling made Microsoft talk again Video icon
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| Tridgell went onto say that the 2004 European Commission decision broke the
| ice between the company and open-source developers and that "the channels of
| communication are now basically open again", despite Microsoft's ongoing
| disputes with the EU's legislative body.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39365994,00.htm?r=1
Recent:
Interview with Carlos Piana
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| The lawyer for Samba and the Free Software Foundation Europe explains the
| behind-the-scenes work behind last month's antitrust decision against
| Microsoft.
|
| [...]
|
| A quite spectacular defence was that about security. Basically it said that,
| unlike the Internet protocols, those keeping together a Microsoft work group
| network were so conceived that the all the servers acted as if they were a
| single distributed entity. In other words they were "tightly coupled",
| closely knitted together so that any intrusion from the outside, a drop-in
| replacement pretending to be a Microsoft Windows server could cause
| irreparable harm and all sort of nefarious problems. Besides, disclosing the
| specifications of their protocols would have required a hardening of the
| protocols, in order to make them resistant to malware attack or simply of
| badly designed third-party software which could have compromised the whole
| infrastructure.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/030808-piana.html
Related:
FLOSS Weekly 14: Jeremy Allison of Samba
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| 'In the section of the interview from around 33m30s to 39m00 Jeremy
| Allison reports how he was told that the Microsoft team implementing
| SMB2 were ordered to "f**k with Samba".'
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http://www.twit.tv/floww14
Samba's Tridge clusters code and crowds
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| Q: How much will the agreement result in the increased interoperability
| between Windows and Linux/Unix?
|
| tridge: For the sections of the protocols we already implement, Samba already
| has quite good interoperability. Where it will make more of a
| difference is allowing us to expand into new areas where we
| previously lacked features that Windows servers have. For example in
| the area of Active Directory replication, and remote indexing.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;486554008;fp;4;fpid;4
FOSS folk who make us proud
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| Five days ago, three members of the free and open source software community
| finally heaved a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from their brows after
| winning a battle they had waged for years.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15896/1090/
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