Open for Business – Designing Social Interfaces – InsideRIA
Instead of authority-based decision-making, we relied on a process we called “rough consensus and running code.” Everyone was welcome to propose ideas, and if enough people liked it and used it, the design became a standard.
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IEBlog : An Early Look At IE9 for Developers
Early Look At IE9 for Developers
We’re just about a month after the Windows 7 launch, and wanted to show an early look at some of the work underway on Internet Explorer 9.
At the PDC today, in addition to demonstrating some of the progress on performance and interoperable standards, we showed how IE and Windows will make the power of PC hardware available to web developers in the browser. Specifically, we demonstrated hardware-accelerated rendering of all graphics and text in web pages, something that other browsers don’t do today. Web site developers will see performance gains and other benefits without having to re-write their sites.
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Introducing the Open Web Foundation Agreement – Open Web Foundation
The Open Web Foundation was founded to help developer communities collaborate and share technical innovation on the web, bringing to the world of formats and protocols the same successful grassroots approaches established by the open source community. Modeled after the Apache Software Foundation and Creative Commons, the Open Web Foundation seeks to facilitate the creation and implementation of specifications with legal agreements that make such work simple, safe, and sustainable.
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McKinsey: What Matters: Creative Commons: Enabling the next level of innovation
Here’s a thought experiment: try to imagine what it would have been like to create Google before the era of the Internet and open standards. You would probably have had to pay millions of dollars to create the necessary software on a proprietary operating system. The effort would have required a huge team of people taking many years. Since Google is a search engine, it most likely would have been given to the phone company to design and run. If you were using X.25, the international networking standard (the Internet equivalent of its time), you would have been charged for each packet of information that you sent or received, in a network in which each network operator had a bilateral agreement with every other network operator. This total project probably would have taken a decade, cost a billion dollars, and not have worked very well.
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EU waffles on open standards in interoperability guideline – Ars Technica
The European Union is drafting a set of guidelines that encourage government agencies to improve technical interoperability. These guidelines are being documented in the European Interoperability Framework for European Public Services (EIF) which is currently in the draft stage. A recent version of the draft reveals that changes to the text have weakened the document’s emphasis on open standards.
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Sun’s MySQL fork survival theory ripped • The Register
If Oracle screws up MySQL, the community will fork and the database will live on under another name – leaving Oracle high and dry.
At least that’s the open-source theory. And it’s a theory Sun Microsystems’ executives past and present have recited to placate those concerned by the prospect Oracle, the number-one database vendor, could end up owning the industry’s leading open-source database.
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Guidelines on horizontal cooperation agreements
EUROPA – Summaries of EU legislation – To help companies determine on a case-by-case basis whether their cooperation agreements are compatible with the competition rules by providing an analytical framework for the most common types of horizontal cooperation.
Wi-Fi Is About to Get a Whole Lot Easier – BusinessWeek
Going Wi-Fi is about to get a lot easier. For many consumers, setting up an in-home Wi-Fi connection point is something of a hassle. Before you can enjoy the convenience of logging onto the Web without cables and wires, you need to hook up some gear and create your own “hotspot.”
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iTWire – Industry heavyweights demand fewer standards bodies
The CTOs of some of the word’s leading IT&T vendors – including Cisco and Microsoft – and some of the largest telcos – including BT, NTT and Telstra – have joined forces in a bid to rationalise what they see as an excess of different, and sometimes competing, organisations developing IT&T standards.
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W3C sidesteps Apple over widget-patent • The Register
The W3C has spent the last three months poring over Apple’s patent on remote updating, and the web standards organization thinks the patent can be avoided by careful wording and tweaking a couple of APIs.
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