][ stefano maffulli

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] is also a unique monoculture where 99.9% of all the computer users are on Microsoft Windows.
The [...]

Tags: cloud, korea, microsoft, mobile cloud, monopoly, open standards, standards, virus

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 episodes of the Software Freedom Law Show, the interesting podcasts he runs with SFLC counsel [...]

Tags: cloud, community, freedom, funambol, identica, interoperability, laconica, open standards, standards

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

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 version, ECMAScript4.
Leaving the technical details aside, I think once again that Microsoft needs to develop [...]

Tags: community, culture, ecmascript, javascript, microsoft, mozilla, open standards, organization, standards