Tuesday, September 23 2008 @ 04:41 AM EDT
"IBM has just announced a new corporate policy regarding its "behavior when helping to create open technical standards". Here's a paragraph you'll like:
"IBM's new standards policy promotes simplified and consistent intellectual property practices, and emphasizes that all stakeholders, including the open source community and those in growth markets, should have equal footing as they participate in the standards process.""
«IBM Announces New I.T. Standards Policy»
To Encourage Improved Tech Standards Quality and Transparency, and Promote Equal Participation of Growth Markets in Globally Integrated Economy
The tenets of IBM's new policy are to:
- Begin or end participation in standards bodies based on the quality and openness of their processes, membership rules, and intellectual property policies.
- Encourage emerging and developed economies to both adopt open global standards and to participate in the creation of those standards.
- Advance governance rules within standards bodies that ensure technology decisions, votes, and dispute resolutions are made fairly by independent participants, protected from undue influence.
- Collaborate with standards bodies and developer communities to ensure that open software interoperability standards are freely available and implementable.
- Help drive the creation of clear, simple and consistent intellectual property policies for standards organizations, thereby enabling standards developers and implementers to make informed technical and business decisions.
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(This no has developed out of the OOXML standards approval fiasco...)