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Red Hat Skeptical of Microsoft’s Openness Promise
In a move to appease European antitrust officials, Microsoft on Thursday promised to open its products. It said its four-pronged approach would ensure open connections, promote data portability, enhance support for industry standards, and improve engagement with customers and the industry, including open-source communities. It’s that last item, open-source communities, that has the tech world talking, but it’s not all pro-Microsoft. Open-source heavy hitters like Linux vendor Red Hat are viewing the announcement with skepticism. Red Hat’s Response According to Michael Cunningham, executive vice president and general counsel for Red Hat, three Microsoft commitments would show the company really means what it says: a commitment to open standards, interoperability with open source, and competition on a level playing field. “Eight years ago the U.S. regulatory authorities, and four years ago the European regulators, made clear to Microsoft that its refusal to disclose interface information for its monopoly software products violates the law,” Cunningham said. “So it is hardly surprising to see even Microsoft state that ‘interoperability across systems is an important requirement’ and announce a ‘change in [its] approach to interoperability.’ Of course, we’ve heard similar announcements before, almost always strategically timed for other effect.” Red Hat wants Microsoft to embrace the cross-platform industry standard for document processing, OpenDocument format, at the International Standards Organization’s meeting next week in Geneva. The Linux giant also wants Microsoft to extend its Open Specification Promise to all the interoperability information it says will be made available. Red Hat also noted that Microsoft’s announcement appears carefully crafted to foreclose competition from the open-source community. “How else can you explain a ‘promise not to sue open-source developers’ as long as they develop and distribute only ‘noncommercial’ implementations of interoperable products? This is simply disingenuous,” he charged. “The only hope for reintroducing competition to the monopoly markets Microsoft now controls –…

E-Waste Is a Growing Concern
Millions of tons of disused electronic equipment containing toxic chemicals and heavy metals are being dumped every year without recycling or safe disposal, Greenpeace said in a report released Thursday. More than 80 percent of televisions, computers, mobile phones and other equipment escape proper handling in the United States, and about 75 percent in the European Union, the environmental group said. In India, 99 percent of such “e-waste” is mishandled, it said. “The introduction of appropriate reuse, recycling and recovery technologies is not keeping pace” with growing sales, said the report, entitled “Toxic Tech: Not in My Back Yard.” More than 1 billion mobile phones were sold last year alone. A mobile phone contains 500 to 1,000 components, many of them containing potentially dangerous metals like lead, mercury, cadmium and beryllium, as well as hazardous chemical flame retardants. EU regulations require producers to be responsible for retrieving their branded products brought out after August 2005, a rule meant to encourage manufacturers to use more recyclable material to reduce their disposal costs. Greenpeace researcher Martin Hojsik said the report was timed to coincide with discussions with the European Commission on reviewing the directive for controlling electronic waste. Within the 27-member EU, recovery works better in some countries than in others, Greenpeace said. About 6.6 million tons of the 8.7 million tons of equipment the EU produces annually is not collected or treated properly, it said. No precise data exists on what happens to this waste, it said. The United States has “a relatively unsophisticated infrastructure” to collect waste electronic goods, but several states are requiring producers to have take-back schemes, it said. Much of what Greenpeace calls the “hidden flow” of hazardous waste is exported to countries like India, China and Thailand. Workers in a thriving “informal sector” in those countries strip down the goods to recover components for second-hand…

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