Tag: open formats

  • Product #WIN: Kudos to Sandisk; respect for the Sansa Fuze

    A lot of people write reviews for products they’ve used for a week. It seems to me that there’s limited value in that: kinda like the automobile manufacturers that struggle to get the J. D. Power & Associates Award for Initial Quality.  That doesn’t impress me.  How does the quality of the product and support…

  • Open Formats and Open Source for Better Government

    The Government of Canada is currently reliant on proprietary file formats and proprietary software applications, which lock it into a licensing bind with a single software manufacturer — Microsoft.  There is not only a question of cost — as we pay a monopoly corporation for per-seat licenses to run software that already dominates the market…