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Archives: March 2008
OOo Postings, Open Standards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format
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It is now certain that OOXML has been approved by the national standards organizations. France finally abstained after an interesting last minute intervention by Microsoft. Odd things happened and the final announcement by the Afnor today would have been a farce if it had not been official.
It is always easy to claim you could […]
Charles @ March 31, 2008
OOo Postings, Open Standards, Ars Aperta, OpenDocument Format
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Today is Document Freedom Day: Roughly 200 teams from more than 60
countries worldwide are organising local activities to raise awareness
for Document Freedom and Open Standards. To support the initiatives
surrounding the first day to celebrate document liberation, DFD
starter packs containing a DFD flag, t-shirts and leaflets have been
sent to the first 100 registered teams over the […]
Charles @ March 26, 2008
OOo Postings, Open Standards, OOXML, OpenOffice.org, OpenDocument Format
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Today the Easter Bunny (that means me on this blog), who’s very early because it’s Good Friday but also the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad and the first day of Spring, is bringing you some links for you to read this week-end.
- Rick Jelliffe gets a cold shower by the SQL standard guru. Boy, that […]
Charles @ March 21, 2008
OOXML
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In the course of the last two days, two major aspects of the OOXML standardization efforts have been revisited by renowned experts. Unfortunately, what sounded like gestures of goodwill by Microsoft is being seriously challenged on a legal and technical point of view.
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), the legal arm of […]
Charles @ March 13, 2008
The Cloud, Web 2.0
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I don’t write that much about the overhyped “web 2.0″ name, but this article from TechCrunch got me thinking. Could there be a new and an old Microsoft? Could there be the Microsoft we all know (Windows, MS Office, OOXML, monopoly) and another Microsoft (young, web 2.0-ish, cloud-oriented) and blissfully unaware of the methods of the past? I […]
Charles @ March 13, 2008
OOo Postings, Open Source, Free Software, OpenOffice.org, OpenDocument Format
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Very recently, the OpenOffice.org project has made two very important announced that will help shape the way the project will work and evolve in the future. As we are in the eve of the release of OpenOffice.org 2.4, I thought it might be the time to discuss the reasons underlying our recent choices.
First, […]
Charles @ March 10, 2008
OOXML
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That’s right, OOXML actually got a little bit better in Geneva. Not slimmer, not faster, not anymore standards compliant nor open. No. It just got weirder. See what one delegate from Brazil has to say about it. Now, there is even weirder : New rules seemed to have been written on the fly during the […]
Charles @ March 7, 2008
OOo Postings, OpenOffice.org, General
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Hear, hear ! OpenOffice.org should be released on the 13 of March 2008. That means… soon. I thought I would link to the list new features of this last major release of OpenOffice.org before the 3.0. In short, this release will allow direct PDF import and limited handling of PDF/A. Other improvements include new […]
Charles @ March 6, 2008