Today I will talk about some tools I’m using daily, namely feedreaders. It is likely that at least a good half of the people with whom I’m working use these readers in order to browse among dozens, if not hundreds of feeds. For the readers of this blog who don’t use such tools, here’s a […]
Charles @ April 29, 2008
As the deadline of the 2 nd of May is drawing near, I thought it useful to clarify some of the actual concerns surrounding the standardization of OOXML. Perhaps this piece will help dispelling some myths.
So what is going on , and what is left to be done before OOXML gets its now more than […]
Charles @ April 22, 2008
Open Source, Free Software, Ars Aperta | Comments (0)
You may recall one of my previous post about the FOSSBazaar project. Following that post, I was invited by the FOSSBazaar team to join the project. I would like to seize that opportunity for having let my company and myself to join the FOSSBazaar project. You will find our announcement here . As an introductory “article”, I have blogged directly on the […]
Charles @ April 13, 2008
Open Standards, OOXML | Comments (0)
Ah, I see you were expecting me to comment on the olympic catastrophy induced by the race for the flame around the world. No. Today I am going to tell you about a protest that has taken place in Norway at the occasion of the ISO SC34 meeting, where odd decisions about standards were taken. […]
Charles @ April 10, 2008
OOo Postings, Open Standards, OOXML, Free Software, OpenDocument Format | Comments (7)
I shall not complain that much about what happened with OOXML. In fact, the act of standardizing OOXML has not really brought any significant advantages to OOXML. ODF is an ISO standard and so is OOXML. That’s what I call a draw, and Microsoft has been battling hard for a bloody draw, as in the […]
Charles @ April 7, 2008