][ stefano maffulli

Standards can be a Royal PITA and every developer and hacker knows that. But for users they’re the only way not to go crazy. Web standards give users the possibility to connect to the Internet from any device and blog, check email, get and make information. The debate is heating up on [...]

Tags: antitrust, ethics, IE, interoperability, microsoft, open standards, opera, W3C

Here we are again with the European Commission being asked by a competitor to remind Microsoft that competition doesn’t mean abuse of dominant position. I have a sense of deja-vu. Opera Software has asked the EC to investigate if Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the [...]

Tags: antitrust, IE, interoperability, microsoft, open standards, opera, W3C