Tag Archives: standards

The cost of monopoly in the cloud

Posted on 10 July, 2009 by Stef

Reading of the latest cyber attacks against South Korea and USA digital systems, I remembered a rather old post from Gen Kanai @Mozilla, the cost of a monoculture. It’s about monopoly, government decisions and security in the cloud. [South Korea] … Continue reading →

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Liberating the cloud one block at the time

Posted on 27 February, 2009 by Stef

The issue is how to bring the values of free software community to the cloud. According to reports from Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), Bradley Kuhn‘s speech has addressed the issue.’  I hope he will include it in the next … Continue reading →

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Two days to comment on TLS-authz standard to IETF

Posted on 9 February, 2009 by Stef

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 … Continue reading →

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Another standards war starring Microsoft

Posted on 7 November, 2007 by Stef

Microsoft and Mozilla have engaged a fight over the future of’  JavaScript (better called ECMAScript): Microsoft prefers to abandon it and start anew with another language based on its .NET script, while Mozilla prefers to evolve JS to a new … Continue reading →

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