Massachusetts, microsoft and digital document standards: Government-as-consumer power to prevent an enclosure movement in the digital age?

Proceedings of the European Conference on e-Government, ECEG

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 395-402

  McGirr, Shaun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Intellectual property; Microsoft; Open standards; Procurement; Standard setting

Indexed keywords

BALANCE SHEETS; BUSINESS STRATEGY; COMPUTER CODES; DE FACTO STANDARD; DIGITAL AGE; DIGITAL DOCUMENTS; FILE FORMATS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; MARKET POWER; MARKET SHARE; MASSACHUSETTS; MICROSOFT; MODE OF ACTION; OPEN STANDARDS; PROCUREMENT; PRODUCT STANDARDS; STANDARD-SETTING; STATE GOVERNMENTS;

COMPETITION; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84871864128     PISSN: 20491034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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