Tag Archives: open web foundation

Parsing the “open” in Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework announcement

Jul 21st – 11am

It’s not necessarily surprising that during the week of O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention (aka OSCON), companies release open source code — just as they often release flashy consumer products during tradeshows to garner the most buzz from contingent news cycles. So it goes with Adobe’s announcement today that they’re releasing two new open source projects, [...]

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The Open Web Foundation

Jul 24th – 5pm

During this morning’s keynote at OSCON, David Recordon announced the formation of the Open Web Foundation (his slides), an initiative with which I am involved, aimed at becoming something akin to a “Creative Commons for patents”, with the intention of lowering the costs and barriers to the development and adoption of open and free specifications [...]

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