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July 2008

Redefining Openness (with lawyers)

Ah, there we go! The surprise of the day really comes from -would you have guessed it?- Microsoft. Just for your record and under the auspices of Rick “Talking-in-the-wind” Jelliffe, (no offense, Rick), I hereby declare that… OOXML is still unavailable ! (drums and trumpets follow). But wait, there is …

Reading list for a rainy July day

Here’s a very interesting, down-to-earth page about the iPhone by the FSF. It’s worth remembering this kind of issues that come along with the iPhone, as much beautiful and enticing it is. Some musings on OpenSim and metaverse interoperaility. But why does OpenSim have to be developed on C# and .Net? Autonomo.us : Now that’s …

Adding Netvibes to the mix….

Not so long ago I had written about some online tools I’m using daily. I have to update my position on some aspects of what I had written earlier. I had first explained that I was using three different online feedreaders, ( Blorq, Google Reader and Rojo) as I was …

The month of the zombie standards

OOXML…. It’s been a long time I had not blogged about it. Well, there are news, and not of the mundane kind. As a starting point, always assume that despite what you are about to read everything is normal and OOXML (the ISO standard) has still not been published . …