Open Source, Free Software, Web 2.0, OpenDocument Format | Comments (0)
Lots of interesting things happened these last days, and I was slow to catch up with them. A few of my highlights below:
Rob Weir from IBM talks about the upcoming OpenDocument Format 1.2 and that’s what will shut the mouth of lots of OOXML minions. I’ve had enough of them bragging about the ability to […]
Charles @ October 28, 2007
Open Source, Free Software, Ars Aperta, General | Comments (0)
The Enlightenment is best described as an intellectual and philosophical movement that helped shape the European civilization in the XVIIIth century. In a way, it is the time where Europe entered what is sometimes referred as the « modern times ». Unlike the movie with Charlie Chaplin bearing the same name, these times are […]
Charles @ October 19, 2007
This article is my first one on Groklaw. I really wanted to express my feelings about the whole story concerning Novell’s fork. And by the way, are they really forking? There are still several engineers from Novell out there on our mailing lists, and I wish we can still work with them. Yet Michael […]
Charles @ October 9, 2007
Open Source, Free Software | Comments (3)
The title of this blog piece may surprize. Would I have turned to the side of the so-called content industry that is usually represented by the MPAA/RIAA and in France the SACEM?
Quite the contrary. In fact what I would like to discuss here is what I feel as a growing and critical misunderstanding about Free […]
Charles @ October 2, 2007