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Favorite In reviewing the language and concepts being used in the various draft bills and directives circulating in Brussels at present, it is clear that the experts crafting the language are using their understanding of proprietary software to build the protections they clearly intend for Open Source. This may be
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Shared by voicesofopensource May 25, 2023
Favorite The news that the European Commission’s competition directorate (DG COMP) has decided not to conduct a full antitrust investigation into the Alliance for Open Media’s (AOM) licensing policy is to be welcomed, especially for the AV1 CODEC specification (successor to the VP9 CODEC and intended to allow royalty-free, high-quality video streaming). It seems
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource May 23, 2023
Favorite One of the proposals in the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is that European standards bodies should develop suitable standards that help simplify conformance. Bert Hubert explains how this might work in his extensive CRA explainer. There’s a crucial issue here for Open Source. EU policy experts say not to
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource May 16, 2023
Favorite What might happen if the uncertainty persists around who is held responsible under the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)? The global Open Source community is averse to legal risks and generally lacks access to counsel, so it’s very possible offers of source code will simply be withdrawn rather than seeking
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource May 11, 2023
Favorite With the European Commission soon to offer the Parliament a bill relating to Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs), it is worth taking time to understand exactly why vendors requiring negotiations to use the patents they have embedded in “open” standards is antithetical to Open Source practice. The value and prosperity generated from Open Source arises from
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource March 2, 2023
Favorite The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an interesting and important proposal for a European law that aims to drive the safety and integrity of software of all kinds by extending the “CE” self-attestation mark to software. And it may harm Open Source. The proposal includes a requirement for self-certification
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource January 24, 2023
Favorite What’s the point of having a KM Policy? Here are 10 arguments in favour. There comes a time when a KM strategy has done its job, and that’s when you need a KM policy. Your Knowledge Management strategy is a strategy for change – a strategy for introducing the
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Shared by Nick Milton December 12, 2022
Favorite In the month of November we rebooted our public policy mailing list and expanded our Policy and Standards program beyond the EU and into the US. We thought it would be helpful to share what our areas of focus are as we look forward to planning for the coming
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource November 10, 2022
Favorite Once KM is in place, to keep it in place you need a Knowledge Management Policy. This picture by unknown author is licensed under CC BY-SA Once you get past the early years of implementing Knowledge Management, when you are doing the testing, training and piloting, you need to be
Read More Shared by Nick Milton October 18, 2019
Favorite Knowledge Management is fully embedded when refusing to do it is not an option. Let me give you an analogy, from the world of Safety. A couple of years ago I was conducting knowledge management exercises at a gas plant in the Niger Delta. In places like this, safety
Read More Shared by Nick Milton January 18, 2019