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  • Microsoft still pushing a standards tax

    If a standard includes "IP restrictions" of any sort, especially royalties (no matter how reasonable or necessary you consider them) you're imposing a tax on all users for your invention.

    Blog posts | August 10, 2009 5:20am PDT

  • In defense of SOA standards bodies

    Duane Nickull, who is very active in the SOA and Web services standards space, was incensed by an anonymous blog posting that savages the efforts of standards bodies, and has published a rebuttal...

    Blog posts | January 26, 2009 8:51am PST

  • U.K. standards body taken to court over OOXML

    Group launches court challenge against decision by British Standards Institution to approve Microsoft's nascent document format.

    News items | May 1, 2008 8:11pm PDT

  • EU investigating OOXML vote

    The EU is investigating Microsoft's handling of the OOXML vote, in which Microsoft's problem-ridden format was approved by the ISO, CNET reports. In an ongoing investigation, the EU checked in...

    Blog posts | April 2, 2008 4:08pm PDT

  • Details emerge of 'shocking' OOXML meeting

    At last month's OOXML ballot resolution meeting, 81 percent of the technical issues around the format were apparently resolved without being properly addressed

    News items | March 31, 2008 7:30am PDT

  • Web services group leaves Sun in cold

    Sun Microsystems is crying foul over a key new Web services standards group created by IBM and Microsoft, accusing its two rivals of "political shenanigans" for not inviting Sun to join as an...

    News items | April 3, 2002 12:00am PST

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