Replying to Steve Jobs recent article 'Thoughts on Flash' I decided to write an open letter to address the confusion brought on open standards.

Tomasz Bednarski (Mandriva Poland) wrote a letter to PKN president, Tomasz Schweitzer, in which he expressed his concerns about the Polish OOXML ratification process which Bednarski took part of, as a member of the technical committee 182. We publish the translation of his letter and the response from Schweitzer.

Software patents are dangerous and costly to business and the community. Please sign this letter to support abolishing patents on software.

Users question the privacy of Skype in an open letter to the heads of the company. Around 50 organizations and 60 individuals have signed the letter asking about Skype's security and privacy practices.

On Friday FSFE sent a letter to the European Commission to support Open Standards and interoperability. In the drawn-out battle to retain at least a weak recommendation for Open Standards in the revised European Interoperability Framework, FSFE has countered a leaked letter by the lobby group Business Software Alliance with its own thorough analysis of the relation between standards and patents.

Open letter to Minister of Communications and Information, An initiative group to support the seven principles to achieve an open eRomania (500 million euro project)

Digistan has just published an open letter signed by some high-level figures. It calls for people to adopt the right approach in the embrace of open standards. It’s worth a quick glance.

It seems as if even the satirists have gotten fired up at Roy Schestowitz, main contributor to Boycott Novell. In this link is an "Open Letter" that they have written for him. How nice.

Industry has always depended on standards and traditional industries have built their standards as part of a slow, controlled, top-down approach to innovation. Industrial-age standards are often heavily patented, complex, and large. They can be expensive to implement and therefore are implementable only for large established firms.