Although the social Web is swinging back more to proprietary standards (e.g. facebook) as companies vie for control, we still need open standards for all for it to work well.
At any given time, there are a few new proprietary platforms making rapid gains, as well as a huge number of open technologies that are making gradual gains against older, proprietary standards.
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The result is a familiar tension between proprietary and open standards.
In short, the non-proprietary feature of the standards, maintained by volunteer groups of engineers under the mantle of The Internet Society, is what accounts for their phenomenal trajectory and velocity over the last fifteen years.
Yet the cloud will be based more on open standards than on proprietary technology.
Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, who heads the committee, requested the names of the research groups who have human embryonic stem cell lines, information on where their research has been published, and details about proprietary rights and what ethical standards were used when the stem cells were derived.
One was introduced by Democrats Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Carl Levin of Michigan to bar banks from proprietary trading and impose tougher capital standards on risk taking.
Bad news for Microsoft: A group of senior government officials from 13 countries is urging nations to ditch proprietary software and adopt open information technology standards.
The switch from proprietary, airline-specific technologies to open standards will, however, reduce the airlines' scope for differentiation.
In contrast to proprietary short distance wireless solutions, the joint standards-based solution enables easy interoperability between any digital media server device and any digital media player device, helping to create a seamless DLNA-Connected home environment.
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Standards are almost never negotiated among companies with proprietary architectures in an industry because the negotiations occur within a context where the representatives have the mindset of representing their proprietary architecture and trying not to get gored by the process.
What is more, vendors themselves increasingly favour open standards as a defensive strategy to neutralise the power of proprietary-minded competitors.
Google has taken a principled and somewhat lonely stand in favor of open video standards, with most other technology companies pushing for the proprietary H.264 standard, which would enrich patent holders but harm open source software.
Millions of users worldwide depend on the EAL 4 certified, enterprise-software standards-based GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform to safeguard confidential or proprietary information, to ensure compliance with regulations for maintaining consumer privacy and to enable secure enterprise mobility.
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On the one hand, iOS is a proprietary standard controlled by Apple, so its ascendancy looks like a threat to open standards.
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It also implemented a design approach to enterprise infrastructure solutions, which consisted of creating open standards-based discrete software products that are easy to implement without dependence on proprietary software.
Yesterday I noticed this story about a web startup called SlideShare ditching Flash (a proprietary plugin provided by Adobe) in favor of HTML 5 (a set of open web standards that have recently been adopted by the major browsers).
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