Our open standards articles explore the movement to create community-developed, non-proprietary, and open requirements, specifications, guidelines for technologies.
The year 2012 had many important FOSS legal developments which reflects the continued increase in FOSS use. FOSS projects have increased from 600,000 in 2010 to 900,000 by…
Last week, the UK Cabinet Office released its Open Standards Principles: For software interoperability, data and document formats in government IT specifications . It became…
All public administrations in Iceland are increasing their use of free and open source software. The country's government recently launched a one year migration project for…
Below are my notes from the talk I gave at OSDC (Open Source Developers Conference) 2011 on open government, where I tried to go into some of the practicalities of open…
In an important development last week, Open Document Format (ODF) version 1.2 was adopted as an OASIS standard after four years of hard work. And it was approved with a strong…
On Monday I was invited to participate in the Energy panel of the President's Council of Jobs and Competitiveness . After introductions by NCSU Chancellor Randy Woodson…
