http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/perens-the-co-optation-of-patents-standards-threaten-it-innovation/ A SearchEnterpriseLinux.com blog Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:56:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/perens-the-co-optation-of-patents-standards-threaten-it-innovation/#comment-1349 Boycott Novell » HarmonISOsation After OOXML Protests in Norway? Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:50:50 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/perens-the-co-optation-of-patents-standards-threaten-it-innovation/#comment-1349 [...] Steep technical barriers aside, what would such a move mean to licensing? OOXML is inherently (maybe also deliberately) incompatible with the GPL and as the following short article reminds us, software patents remain an obstacle whose removal is hinged on political brunt. With ISO/IEC 26300, Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0., the ISO did address business software interoperability in 2006. This requires all office documents to be able to be sent from one software system to a competing software system without having to be re-formatted. In the U.S., it has been hard to stop software vendors from filing or expanding software patents that lack integrity and bankrupting OSS startups with lawsuits. U.S. “lawmakers are so in thrall to big-media lobbyists that they do not even realize that counterarguments to copyright extensions exist,” said Professor at Stanford Law School and founder of the Center for Internet and Society Lawrence Lessig. [...] [...] Steep technical barriers aside, what would such a move mean to licensing? OOXML is inherently (maybe also deliberately) incompatible with the GPL and as the following short article reminds us, software patents remain an obstacle whose removal is hinged on political brunt. With ISO/IEC 26300, Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0., the ISO did address business software interoperability in 2006. This requires all office documents to be able to be sent from one software system to a competing software system without having to be re-formatted. In the U.S., it has been hard to stop software vendors from filing or expanding software patents that lack integrity and bankrupting OSS startups with lawsuits. U.S. “lawmakers are so in thrall to big-media lobbyists that they do not even realize that counterarguments to copyright extensions exist,” said Professor at Stanford Law School and founder of the Center for Internet and Society Lawrence Lessig. [...]

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