Gateway To Nowhere: Standards-Bashing Won’t Fix Set Top Gridlock
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Gateway To Nowhere: Standards-Bashing Won’t Fix Set Top Gridlock
February 5, 2010 – 11:45 pm | No Comment

Standards “would thwart, not advance, innovation” and “entail crippling delays”  because they are “extremely time consuming, often divisive, and sometimes used by one faction to block the progress of another or to promote its own …

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“Trust But Verify”: IPR & BBC’s Project Canvas
August 31, 2009 – 6:46 pm | No Comment
“Trust But Verify”: IPR & BBC’s Project Canvas

I have filed comments in the UK Project Canvas public consultation.  To catch up on the UK context with global implications, watch James Murdock’s mesmerizing anti-BBC screed, and say…
“This is the BBC.”
Perhaps no other single …

Why the Sad State of Interactive TV Matters and What to Do About It
March 16, 2009 – 10:47 am | One Comment
Why the Sad State of Interactive TV Matters and What to Do About It

What would the Internet look like today if history had been just slightly different?
Say for example the Internet’s open, royalty-free foundation — protocols, HTML, etc. — hadn’t mostly won out?
Leaving only proprietary solutions or shifting …