Microsoft’s Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) has garnered a lot of attention, especially since it was submitted to the W3C as a possible standard for XML-based communication among object ...

The same must happen here. But without serious investment in open protocols and public infrastructure, alternatives will remain niche and difficult to use.

Even in the early days of ActivityPub, the protocol’s creators tried to get the big social networks on board with a more open social web.

HOME blogs op ed unblog 174915192 Ecma Says Yeah To Microsoft Open Office XML News Ecma Says Yeah To Microsoft Open Office XML By Barbara Darrow December 11, 2005, 11:04 AM EST ...