05/24/2023
May 23, 2023 – Andrew Updegrove briefed the U.S. Interagency Committee on Standards Policy on the convergence of open source and standards development and the implications of this continuing evolution. …
05/24/2023
May 4, 2023 – The Summit announced the nation’s first ever standards strategy as a reaction to the recent, regrettable trend towards the politicization of the global standards development process. …
10/12/2022
Open source software and open standards have many similarities but the legal frameworks under which each are created have real and important differences. Nonetheless there is an increasing desire to …
09/16/2022
As we have previously reported to you, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added Chinese 5G technology giant Huawei to its Entity List more than …
09/16/2022
The U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added Chinese 5G technology giant Huawei to its Entity List more than three years ago. The immediate result was …
03/08/2022
The unleashing of unprovoked acts of violence against the people of Ukraine has both horrified and united much of the world against Russia. Even historically neutral Switzerland has condemned Putin’s …
07/30/2021
As published on Consortiuminfo.org, February 12, 2020
By Joanna Lee
Not all free and open source (OS) software licenses have been created to achieve the same goals, and failure to understand the …
04/08/2021
Mackrell International, a global legal network of which Gesmer Updegrove is a part, recently interviewed Andrew Updegrove, asking him to explain the history and operations of the blockchain and cryptocurrencies. …
12/15/2020
Click here to read Russ’ article on the Standards Blog.
09/23/2020
Originally posted on Consortiuminfo.org, July 6, 2020
Of the fundamental structural questions that drive discussions within the open source community, two that continually spur fervent debate are (a) whether software code …
