So you've written a book and want to promote it. Sure you know how to build a website. But how about an author website that really works hard to sell books? There's more to it than just HTML
The UK Home Office continued its path towards full support for ODF by issuing its ODF Adoption Plan last week. It also suggested that the relevance of "documents" in public/private interaction is approaching its end.
There's a way to save millions of lives a year that's based on open source software
I wrote this piece five years ago. Sadly, it's still timely today. Only the names have been changed to update the idiots
A couple of years ago, LXer readers followed the first dozen chapters of my second cybersecurity thriller. Now it's done, and the fictional events I dreamed up are (again) already happening in the real world. Yikes!
Once upon a time, if you asked a standards setting organization what its intellectual property policy rights policy was, you’d get a simple answer: “We own the copyright in everything we produce.” Oh, to return to the good old days.
Now that’s an intriguing question, isn’t it? The answer, unfortunately, is, yes! In fact, it's probably inevitable.
Some people do things that make them rich and famous. Others never see the limelight, but create things that make everything else possible.They deserve recognition to.
A common assumption is that the availability of patents in software affects developers and users in the U.S. but not in the EU. Another is that patent holders in the US are dead set against patent reform. Neither assumption is true.
Once upon a time, standards were standards and open source software was open source software. Things get a lot more complicated when you start combining the two.
The cause of open standards - including ODF - in government continues to move forward in the EU, one nation at a time.
It takes something truly egregious to make me write an out and out rant. This article succeeded in spades.
Last year, a panel of Circuit Court judges ruled that believing that a patent is invalid should be a defense against liability for patent infringement. Last week, the Supreme Court says no dice. Meanwhile, the poor quality of software patents stays the same.
Some major open source foundations now require "patent pledges." Here's what they are, and why they're being requested.
Last week, the Library of Congress announced that it will “open up with OOXML.” Nine new OOXML format descriptions will be added to the LoC Format Sustainability Website. What?
Not so long ago, everybody was suing everybody in what quickly became knows as the "Mobile Platform Wars." That may not be so easy anymore.
It's become fashionable for content producers to rail against the concept of “curation” in the Age of the Internet. But that sells both sides short - content producers and consumers alike.
Many self-published authors believe that Amazon is the patron saint of writers, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is suffering from "Amazon Derangement Syndrome." Until now...
Heaven help us all, they’re doing it again. The “who” are the venture capitalists, and the “what” is super-inflating another start-up company bubble.
This time, the effort being launched is called the Dronecode Project, and the code it supports controls a much hotter platfrom than a telecom backbone: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more popularly known simply as "drones."