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Microsoft allows GPL
Blog Along with its surprise funding of Apache, Microsoft has updated some aspects of its "Open Specification Promise" and - surprise - people are positive about it. But the big news is an update to Microsoft's Open Specification Promise, a scheme under...
[July 28, 2008, 17:32]
Microsoft: We won't sue over future OOXML versions
News Microsoft has assured coders that its Open Specification Promise — a pledge that it won't sue developers using OOXML — will apply to future versions of the document format. Oliver Bell, Microsoft Asia-Pacific regional technology officer, wrote on...
[March 28, 2008, 7:13]
Microsoft defends validity of open-source move
News Microsoft has struck out at the Software Freedom Law Center's claims that its Open Specification Promise is not as open as it should be. The SFLC published a legal analysis of Microsoft's Open Specification Promise, a document written to give...
[March 17, 2008, 8:32]
Promise from Microsoft not to sue over standards
News The Open Specification Promise (OSP), published on Tuesday on Microsoft's interoperability page, appears as Microsoft faces ongoing legal troubles over its competitive practices, particularly where it comes to open source software.
[September 13, 2006, 13:35]
Developers warned over OOXML patent risk
News But, further to this, Microsoft first released the standard under a "covenant not to sue", which has since been updated into a document called the Open Specification Promise (OSP). Developers wishing to use Microsoft's Office Open XML specification...
[February 14, 2008, 11:56]
Microsoft opens doors to virtualisation format
News The virtualisation technology will be available under the terms of Microsoft's Open Specification Promise (OSP), which it introduced in September. In September, Microsoft said that a broad range of Web services protocols, which were developed with...
[October 18, 2006, 8:45]
Open-source ID tool awaits Microsoft's go-ahead
News Microsoft will continue its discussions with Higgins, the Microsoft representative said, but declined to say whether the company will expand its open-specification promise. How to do that has now been fully documented, but we need that included...
[March 12, 2007, 7:39]
Microsoft promises not to sue over Sender ID
News The company said on Monday it is making the "Sender ID Framework" available under its Open Specification Promise programme. The move is part of an effort to promote interoperability among commercial and open source software products, and among...
[October 24, 2006, 9:45]
Microsoft's open source mind shift
News The software giant on Tuesday published the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, a document that says that Microsoft will not sue anyone who creates software based on Web services technology, a set of standardised communication protocols designed...
[September 15, 2006, 14:20]
Microsoft funds Apache
News For example, Microsoft has released its own open-source licences and put some technology under its Open Specification Promise, which lets open-source programmers use that technology. Microsoft has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation, one...
[July 28, 2008, 10:49]
Microsoft publishes Office specs in OOXML push
News With the specs criticised as incomplete, Jones announced that Microsoft had made the binaries available under its Open Specification Promise (OSP), a more formal version of the "covenant not to sue". Software giant Microsoft has published Office...
[February 18, 2008, 14:04]
Open-source community reacts to Microsoft move
News Commit to interoperability with open source: Instead of offering a patent licence for its protocol information on the basis of licensing arrangements it knows are incompatible with the GPL (General Public License) — the world's most widely used...
[February 22, 2008, 12:42]
Penguin playtime: Linux gets game
News On 8 March, Loki Interactive Entertainment, the largest publisher of Linux games, and multimedia-hardware maker Creative Technologies announced a collaboration on an open-audio specification known as OpenAL, which promises to let developers create...
[June 9, 2000, 8:33]
US Report: HP's real-time Java causes break in ranks
News The specification could differ from Sun's if the latter (Nasdaq:SUNW) chooses not to work with the group, says HP marketing manager Byron Ryono, meaning Java's Write Once/Run Anywhere promise is threatened.
[November 4, 1998, 11:49]
Microsoft to standardise HD Photo technology
News And the company has said HD Photo technology is covered by the Open Specification Promise, an agreement under which Microsoft pledges not to assert its patent rights, which makes it more palatable to potential rivals — in particular open-source...
[March 7, 2007, 9:02]
Microsoft in the hot seat in new Net flap
News Microsoft again finds itself at odds with the open-source community in a dispute over contending claims regarding an Internet security protocol. Earlier this spring the company took heat for attaching proprietary extensions to the Kerberos security...
[May 12, 2000, 9:02]
Software trio teams on e-commerce security tech
News The software trio is aiming to make the new technology, called the XML (Extensible Markup Language) key management specification (XKMS), a standard. The companies said XKMS is available Wednesday and they intend to submit it to the appropriate Web...
[November 29, 2000, 14:41]
Infighting unravels Web services
News While Microsoft was holding its "open invitation" workshop on Tuesday to garner feedback on the WS-ReliableMessaging specification, Sun issued a statement calling the action detrimental to the advancement of industry standards, which are meant to...
[July 18, 2003, 8:37]
Web services need directory assistance
News It could take four to five years before the public UDDI registry fully lives up to its promise, analysts say. We wanted to prove the concept and what better way to prove it -- with an open, standardised, public registry that does that?
[July 2, 2002, 15:38]
Apple's tunes could threaten Microsoft
News Lastly, it is being challenged by newer technology such as MP3Pro, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis and others that promise substantial improvements. Signs of the shift toward online media standards came first in the video world, when Apple based...
[April 30, 2003, 11:42]
