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The Birth of the SGIP (Live from Denver)

In a short while, an important vote will be taken in downtown Denver, Colorado.  If as expected that vote is in the affirmative, a unique and important public-private partnership will spring into being.  It will also have an extremely ambitious goal: ...

From ANDY UPDEGROVE, LXer,  17 Nov 2009

Checking in on CodePlex

It's been more than a month since I last wrote about the CodePlex Foundation, the new open source initiative announced by Microsoft in early September. While things were pretty quiet at the Foundation site for some time, that changed on October 21, ...

From ANDY UPDEGROVE, LXer,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Digitization and the (Vanishing) Arts of the Book

ome of the most beautiful artistic treasures created during the millennium we refer to in the Western world as the Dark Ages are books — usually of a religious nature, they were transcribed by hand in sumptuously precise calligraphy, illuminated with ...

From ANDY UPDEGROVE, LXer,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Wyeth|WYE|NYSE,  Harold Ross,  Nicholson Baker,  Thomas Jefferson

The Constantine Code and the Missing Standard!

One of the realities that every standards professional must deal with is the sad fact that everyone else in the world thinks that standards are…      [start over; no one else thinks about standards much at all] Ahem. One of the things that standards ...

From ANDY UPDEGROVE, LXer,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dan Brown

It's Time for Obama to Come Out for FOSS

They're expected to deal with every new topic that comes down the pike, from regulating securitized credit swaps to beefing up cybersecurity, whether they've had any previous experience with it or not. Of course, there's never a shortage of people who ...

From ANDY UPDEGROVE, LXer,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Microsoft Corporation,  IBM

The CodePlex Foundation: First Impressions (and Recommendations)

Well, it’s been a busy week in Lake Wobegon, hasn’t it?  First, the Wall Street Journal broke the story that Microsoft had unwittingly sold 22 patents, not to the Allied Security Trust (which might have resold them to patent trolls), but to the Open ...

From ANDY UPDEGROVE, LXer,  14 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Wall Street Journal

Open vs. Closed: the iPhone's Future or Folly?

Steve Jobs is a genius of design and marketing, but his track record on calling the right balance between utilizing proprietary arts and public resources (like open source and open standards) is more questionable.  Two news items caught my eye today ...

From ANDY UPDEGROVE, LXer,  31 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Steve Jobs,  Bill Gates,  Microsoft Corporation,  Motorola, Inc.

Technology's Reach and Security's Grasp

Modern society harbors many bad habits. One is its penchant for enthusiastically embracing the benefits of new technologies before considering their less desirable side effects. Whether we look at the development of automobiles (first) and safety ...

From ANDY UPDEGROVE, LXer,  28 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

So What About Those XML Patents, Anyway?

Mea Culpa.  I am uncharacteristically late in commenting on the XML Wars of August, 2009, which have already received so much attention in the press and in the blogs of the technology world.  The wars to which I refer, of course, broke out with the ...

From ANDY UPDEGROVE, LXer,  21 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  European Commission

How Safe is Your Credit/Debit Card?

Cybersecurity is an increasingly frequent topic in the news, and this week brought word of the indictment of someone who must be the leading contender for the title, Master Cybercriminal of All Time (Payment Card Fraud Division):  Albert Gonzalez. ...

From ANDY UPDEGROVE, LXer,  20 Aug 2009

Related Topics: MasterCard

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