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Steps to adopt open source standards draw flak
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| Indiaâs open source software lobbyists
| allege that the countryâs proposed draft
| recommendations for adopting open
| technology standards and software for
| automating different government departments
| and functions, favours popular software
| solutions from large companies such as
| Microsoft.
|
| According to people familiar with the draft
| recommendations, a meeting of the apex body
| on Standards for eGovernance was held last
| week, and the policy is close to being
| approved. ET was shown a copy of the
| proposed recommendations by one of the
| persons who requested anonymity.
|
| [...]
|
| The most contentious point of the policy is
| that it includes standards which may be
| royalty free and non discriminatory (RAND)
| as compared to fair royalty free and non
| discriminatory (FRAND), which many experts
| had recommended.
|
| âThe entire standard should be royalty-free
| and not just the âessentialâ parts of it.
| In other words, All patent claims necessary
| to implement the standard should be
| royaltyfree. Also, royalty free on
| FRAND/RAND is self-contradictory. If a
| Standard is Royalty Free (RF) then it
| cannot be RAND,â says Venkatesh Hariharan,
| a blogger and expert on open source
| affairs.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/software/Steps-to-adopt-open-source-standards-draw-flak/articleshow/5475276.cms
Why we need Neelie (and some donât want her)
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| This comes after her hearing last week. If
| you take a closer look at what Neelie told
| us in that hearing, I fail to see why it is
| wrong. However I fully understand that some
| other companies and organisations are
| alarmed. This is what she had to say wrt
| Open Standards (transcribed from the
| hearing which is ironically only accessible
| with non-open Microsoft stuff):
|
| 5- Digital society depends upon open
| standards and interoperability. And
| with this in mind, public organizations
| should practice what they promote. If
| they donât use open standards, why
| should citizens? I will pursue this
| from local authorities up to european
| institutions. If public data such as
| maps, weather information and health
| advise is not interoperable, how can it
| be exploited in new ways? And for such
| reasons I want to explore new ways to
| develop ICT standards in Europe.
|
| So Neelie wants to explore new ways, wants
| to enforce the use of open standards, wants
| to free public data. I am not going to tell
| you who might have a different opinion. But
| I am sure, my dear Lazyweb, that you know
| which company I am talking about.
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http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-we-need-neelie-and-some-dont-want-her/
Recent:
Microsoft sued in patent spat
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| A Massachusetts software company filed suit
| in Bostonâs District Court against Microsoft
| Corp., claiming the Redmond software giant
| infringed its patent on a business method for
| extracting data from spreadsheets.
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http://kpbj.com/business_weekly/2009-12-14/microsoft_sued_in_patent_spat
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