EC Rebuffs Microsoft Over Open-source Report
News Since publication of the report, the European Commission has come under further pressure from CompTIA, which is part-funded by Microsoft. The CompTIA-backed Initiative for Software Choice wrote a stern letter to the Commission immediately after...
[February 8, 2007, 13:41]
When Goliath Manipulated Goliath
Blog Jan 18, 2007 Microsoft-funded organisation, the Initiative for Software Choice, which is headed by CompTIA, writes to the Commission asking it to address the reporting of the issue in the "international press".
[January 31, 2007, 11:13]
Revealed: Tech Titans Of The Past 25 Years
News On another occasion, when the Commission fined Microsoft last year for not sharing protocol information with its rivals, CompTIA called the $357m (£175m) fine "arbitrary and capricious". Earlier this year, CompTIA threw its weight behind Microsoft...
[November 13, 2007, 13:08]
Internet Explorer 'most Influential' Tech Product
News On another occasion, when the European Commission fined Microsoft last year for not sharing or licensing protocol information with its rivals, CompTIA called the $357m (£175m) fine "arbitrary and capricious".
[July 31, 2007, 16:04]
Bush Challenges EC Over Internet Governance
News The CompTIA trade association, for instance, has stressed that it supports a "market-based solutions" approach rather than expanded UN control. In a sign that traditionally obscure discussions about Internet control have taken on new prominence...
[October 21, 2005, 11:30]
European Commission Denies Favouring Open Source
News The ISC's external affairs are handled by CompTIA, which is funded by several IT vendors including Microsoft. The European Commission has distanced itself from a report it commissioned that endorsed the use of open-source software.
[January 30, 2007, 11:48]
When Goliath Manipulated Goliath
Blog Comment I should point out that the EC did not "distance itself" from the report, as ZDNet (or CompTIA) might suggest - the EC commissioned the report and published it, and did not (and never planned to) make an immediate policy change.
[February 2, 2007, 9:08]
'Default' Open-source Licensing Plans Under Fire
News The ISC is an initiative of industry association CompTIA, which represents several hundred proprietary software companies, including Microsoft -- one of the most outspoken critics of open-source licences.
[March 11, 2004, 15:40]
EC: We'd Accept Software Patent Defeat
News Industry associations CompTIA, the Business Software Alliance and the European Information and Communications Technology Industry Association have expressed their approval of the EU Council's endorsement.
[March 9, 2005, 11:45]
Patent Restart Request Ratified
News Hugo Lueders, the director of public policy at pro-patent organisation CompTIA, is also unsure what will happen next. A Parliament spokesman said on Thursday that this request was approved without debate by the Conference of Presidents -- the...
[February 17, 2005, 14:50]
Europe To Push Open Source For E-government
News A US-based industry body called CompTIA is also fighting open source in government via the Initiative for Software Choice. The European Commission is placing open standards and open-source software at the centre of its efforts to promote...
[July 21, 2003, 13:34]
BCS Joins European E-skills Push
News E-Skills ILB's members include Cisco, CompTIA, ECDL Foundation, Econet, Eito, European Software Association, Exin, Global Knowledge Network, HP, Inlea Foundation, Intel, Microsoft, Prometric, Oracle and Siemens.
[May 28, 2008, 15:10]
Software Patent Directive Rejected
News While many SMEs, free software advocates and software developers have spoken out against the directive from the start, various large companies have lobbied for the directive, often via campaign groups such as the Business Software Alliance, EICTA...
[July 6, 2005, 12:25]
Microsoft Fine Splits Industry
News The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a third-party intervener that testified during a Microsoft and European Commission hearing in April, echoed those comments and described the Commission's fines as "arbitrary and capricious".
[July 13, 2006, 10:05]
