][ stefano maffulli

Mobile cloud is going to be big, according to a study published by ABI research. And they’re not the only ones to say so.
In this second part of my thoughts about mobile cloud — which I hope we can all talk about at OSCON — I’ll try to find answers to this question: as [...]

Tags: community, free software, funambol, lock-in, locked devices, mobile cloud, open standard, oscon

Patent encumbered standards are the worst because they seem legit, but instead they can easily become incompatible with Free/Libre Open Source Software.’  Free Software Foundation campaign is alerting the community to act fast:
Last January, the Free Software Foundation issued an alert to efforts at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to sneak a patent-encumbered standard [...]

Tags: campaign, fsf, ietf, open standard, standards, tls

I still have Obama’s inauguration’s speech in my mind, so full of passion and hope. It’s such a powerful word, hope.’  What most impressed me was his call to politicians to stop bickering and get to work to reform politics.’  This morning I read a post of Mitch Kapor, about the interconnection between politics and [...]

Tags: flash, fsf, html5, internet, kapor, microsoft, moonlight, open standard, silverlight

When it comes to connecting people, the first thing you need to do is use the same language.’  That doesn’t mean force everybody to use your language, because that’s what dictators do (and dictators are wiped out by history). To connect people you have to adapt to people’s language, eventually learning many of them.
This post [...]

Tags: business, funambol, interoperability, iphone, mobile, Nokia, open standard

Doc Searls asks on LJ:
What if Yahoo’s main value isn’t its search engine or its advertising business, but the openness that makes it more Net-native and hacker-friendly than Microsoft?
Right… what if? I don’t think that today’s Microsoft understand the value of openness. But (possible) new Microsoft starting in June probably will. We’ll [...]

Tags: finance, m&a, microsoft, open standard, yahoo

Ho l’impressione che Stephan Wenger di Nokia voglia dare una spallata al WorldWideWeb Consortium (W3C) impegnato nella definizione del prossimo standard HTML5. Teniamo a mente che tra tutti gli enti di standardizzazione, W3C è l’unico a prevedere in una policy esplicita che eventuali brevetti negli standard devono essere rilasciati dai titolari con licenze [...]

Tags: html5, Multimedia, Nokia, Ogg, open standard, Theora, Video, Vorbis, W3C