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Datamation: "Back then, their concern was that the various workstation and server systems had 70 percent profit margins, which they locked in through the use of proprietary APIs.

It was too expensive to port a customer's software to another brand, and thus the workstation vendors were able to hold on to that customer."

The whole medical industry needs to examine his roadmap closely. Because this is the way to go, if you really want open standards.And if you say you do but don’t we should, as John McCain says, know your name.

Bruce Perens discusses open standards in vertical markets in a Datamation article.

"History repeats itself in interesting ways. Vertical markets are today grappling with their own need for truly Open Standards, going through all of the pain that the broader IT industry suffered two decades ago.

Fortunately, the verticals can learn from the experience of the broader IT industry that has already fought these battles.

Datamation: "The man who prompted that decision could be described as the worst enemy a Free Software project could have.

This is the story of how our community was able to benefit from that enemy."

Trolltech was very kind to send us over a copy of the recently released " C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 " book, part of "Bruce Perens' Open Source Series".

The book weighs in at about 400 pages and comes with a ...

Bruce Perens creator of the Open Source Definition and the founder of OSI (Open Source Initiative), sets his view on the surprising decision of Microsoft to support a major open source and one of the biggest competitor of their IIS server

Datamation: "For a decade, Microsoft was open source's worst enemy, combating it at every turn. But last week Microsoft joined the Apache open source project as a platinum sponsor...Has Redmond given up the fight?

Or is this just their latest strategy?"

A week ago, we discussed Microsoft's contribution to the Apache Foundation . Now, Bruce Perens has written an analysis "exploring the new relationship of Microsoft and the Apache project, how it works as an ...

A week ago, we discussed Microsoft's contribution to the Apache Foundation. Now, Bruce Perens has written an analysis "exploring the new relationship of Microsoft and the Apache project, how it works as an anti-Linux move on Microsoft's part, and what some of the Open Sourcers are going to do about having Microsoft as a rather untrustworthy partner." In particular, he notes: "...Microsoft can still influence how things go from here on.

If they have to live with open source, the Apache project is Microsoft's preferred direction.

Bruce Perens looks at Microsoft's sponsorship of Apache.

"For a decade, Microsoft was open source's worst enemy, combating it at every turn. But last week Microsoft joined the Apache open source project as a platinum sponsor, promising to put $100,000 per year into a project that beats its own IIS (Internet Information Services) in the market.

Microsoft also made some of their patents available for use in GPL software like Linux without a royalty.