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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
As the OOoCON 2007 is now over, some of you may ask what OpenOffice.org has in store for 2007 and 2008? That’s a good question. I’ll try to answer it. There will be two major milestones for OpenOffice.org in 2008. The first one will be the final agreement on MS …