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I wanted to give a quick shout out to our President, who was just listed as one of eWeek’s Top Ten Open-Source Business Influencers. Wish they could’ve gotten a better picture, though…

An Information Week article published last week appears to position Microsoft as trying to do something right when it comes to open source. And it positions the open source community as being not quite ready to make nice after past insults, threats, and abuse. Speaking for myself, I am always ready to see what somebody…

Are you a patent holder, wondering how to write software which implements your patent? Here’s my advice: Patents expire. Towards the end of the patent’s lifetime, you want to be trying to transfer the patent’s franchise over to the relationship between the patent-holder and the licensee. That can be done with closed-source software, but you…

This is the text of a comment I made on a blog posting by Matt Asay: Matt, Thanks for saying what I would have said. I’ll go a few steps futher: The OSI nominates people to the board despite their corporate affiliations, not because of them. The idea that the OSI would elect a "Microsoft"…

OOXML needs to die. It’s clear that OOXML is a faux standard — not because it’s a vendor standard. There are lots of vendor-created standards which are real standards (e.g. PostScript). No, OOXML is a botch because it’s expressed in terms of an undocumented Microsoft graphics library. OOXML is all “and then a miracle occurs”.…