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UWB Standards Rivals Offer Royalty-free Technology
News The battle between technology heavyweights over whose proposal will become a new short-range, high-speed wireless standard has heated up again, with one side now promising to offer its technology royalty-free to other companies.
[October 29, 2003, 16:05]
Linux Standard Eases Programming
News The Free Standards Group released version 1.0 of the Linux Standard Base specification Friday, a move aimed at reducing the difficulties of getting software such as Oracle's database to run on versions of Linux from Red Hat, Debian, SuSE and others.
[July 3, 2001, 9:33]
China Signs Up For Linux Standards
News The Free Standards Group, a non-profit group promoting Linux standards, said that a Chinese government agency has opened a lab that will use the Free Standards Group's Linux Standards Base certification process.
[January 17, 2006, 15:25]
Latest Linux Guidelines Released
News Open-source software proponent Free Standards Group said on Thursday that it has released version 2.0 of its Linux development guidelines to the public. The Free Standards Group contends that by helping software makers cut down on the amount of...
[January 29, 2004, 15:35]
Groups Merge To Create Linux Foundation
News The Open Source Developer Labs and the Free Standards Group, two groups trying to standardise and steer Linux, have merged in an effort to increase their influence. It made sense to combine two organisations that serve a similar function and have a...
[January 22, 2007, 8:17]
Linux Standard Gets Powerful Support
News The Free Standards Group (FSG), an organisation which promotes open-source standards, announced on Monday that 20 vendors of Linux-based hardware, software and services will back Linux Standard Base 2.0 (LSB).
[September 13, 2004, 18:55]
Linux Standards Base Wins More Support
News The Free Standards Group said on Monday that more than a dozen additional companies have agreed to support LSB. Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Free Standards Group, said that LSB allows ISVs to cut the costs of writing software for Linux, as...
[March 22, 2005, 15:10]
Linux Standard Gets Stamp Of Approval
News The programme, announced by the Free Standards Group, is the latest effort by the largest Linux vendors to make the platform more attractive to major software vendors, and accelerate its acceptance by big businesses.
[July 2, 2002, 13:48]
Web Services Finds Royalty-free Oasis
News A group within the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) will meet next month to discuss the technical development of Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL), a proposal led by several...
[April 30, 2003, 11:14]
Standardised Linux Gains Support
News Red Hat 8, SuSE 8.1, SCO Group OpenLinux 3.1.1 and MandrakeSoft 9 ProSuite all comply with the LSB's guidelines, according to the Free Standards Group, which oversees the LSB certification process. The Free Standards Group announced the opening of...
[October 9, 2002, 8:07]
Web Standards Body Finalises Anti-patent Policy
News By adopting this Patent Policy, with its commitment to royalty-free standards for the future, we are laying the foundation for another decade of technical innovation, economic growth and social advancement.
[May 22, 2003, 7:46]
OASIS Patent Policy Lambasted
News If you are an OASIS member, do not participate in any working group that allows encumbered standards that cannot be implemented in open source and free software. There's the option for standards to be royalty-free but there's no strong incentive.
[February 23, 2005, 9:45]
Patent Fight Holds Up Web Standards
News Sun has also emerged as a major proponent of unpaid standards, convening a royalty-free standards group called the Liberty Alliance Project to develop online authentication services. One standards group that has allied itself with the W3C said it...
[July 11, 2002, 14:01]
IBM And Microsoft Shun W3C Standards Meeting
News Some members of the choreography working group argue that a royalty-free approach to standards is in the best interest of customers and information technology providers. IBM intends to provide a royalty-free license for BPEL4WS, which will be...
[March 14, 2003, 9:59]
Oracle Appeals To W3C On Web Services
News Oracle hopes to avert a battle over rival efforts to create Web services standards by asking the leading oversight group to pick a winner. Don Deutsch, Oracle's vice president of standards strategy and architecture, said the main goal is to settle...
[September 11, 2002, 14:55]
OpenOffice.org Dismisses Pro-OOXML Report
News The two most prominent examples of XML-based document standards are the OpenDocument Format (ODF), as favoured by free or low-cost office-productivity suites such as OpenOffice.org, and Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format, which is central...
[January 17, 2008, 11:28]
Patent Holders On The Ropes
News After 14 months of wrangling over a proposed exception to its royalty-free policy, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Web's most influential standards group, this month repudiated the use of royalty-encumbered technologies in its...
[December 3, 2002, 10:31]
Free-software Gadfly Takes On Net Group
News But as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and other standards groups reevaluate their intellectual property rights (IPR) policies, an effort has sprung up within the IETF to create a royalty-free policy.
[November 25, 2002, 14:52]
Perens Takes On Internet Standard Body
News But as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and other standards groups reevaluate their intellectual property rights (IPR) policies, an effort has sprung up within the IETF to create a royalty-free policy.
[November 26, 2002, 10:28]
Linux Vendors Move To Standard Platform
News In January the Free Standards Group, along with HP, IBM, Dell Computer, Compaq Computer, SuSE, Red Hat, Caldera, Turbolinux and Ximian, announced version 1.1 of the LSB. The efforts of SuSE, Caldera and Turbolinux parallel the work of these...
[May 30, 2002, 9:43]
