Comments for Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards http://standardsandfreedom.net A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz. Mon, 12 May 2008 10:32:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 Comment on “Die Partei hat immer Recht” by Alan Jenkins http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/05/die-partei-hat-immer-recht/#comment-763 Alan Jenkins Sat, 10 May 2008 14:47:00 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/05/die-partei-hat-immer-recht/#comment-763 Andre: you don't say it - maybe because it's become cliche - but I guess this is exactly what was meant by the word "doublethink". Andre: you don’t say it - maybe because it’s become cliche - but I guess this is exactly what was meant by the word “doublethink”.

]]> Comment on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: Creativity Extended by Boycott Novell » Links 10/05/2008: Case Study for GNU/Linux on the Desktop, Multi-Pointer Support in X http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/#comment-762 Boycott Novell » Links 10/05/2008: Case Study for GNU/Linux on the Desktop, Multi-Pointer Support in X Sat, 10 May 2008 07:47:06 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/#comment-762 [...] OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: Creativity Extended [...] […] OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: Creativity Extended […]

]]> Comment on “Die Partei hat immer Recht” by Boycott Novell » Proprietary ‘Standards’, Private ‘Standards’ and Microsoft’s Secret ‘Standards’ http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/05/die-partei-hat-immer-recht/#comment-761 Boycott Novell » Proprietary ‘Standards’, Private ‘Standards’ and Microsoft’s Secret ‘Standards’ Sat, 10 May 2008 03:39:15 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/05/die-partei-hat-immer-recht/#comment-761 [...] for the concerned public to see. The last complaint seems to have come from Rob Weir, but here is yet another that refers to Microsoft and ECMA disobeying rules and making false promises. The fact is, nobody [...] […] for the concerned public to see. The last complaint seems to have come from Rob Weir, but here is yet another that refers to Microsoft and ECMA disobeying rules and making false promises. The fact is, nobody […]

]]> Comment on “Die Partei hat immer Recht” by Andre http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/05/die-partei-hat-immer-recht/#comment-751 Andre Mon, 05 May 2008 23:08:41 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/05/die-partei-hat-immer-recht/#comment-751 The absurd aspect is that Die Partei hat immer Recht was a slogan of the party and later conveyed that ironical self-criticism. Als a slogan it thus means 'we are the hypocrites'. It is stalinesque subversive adsurdity that whenever it clashed with mind creates a certain surrealism only known from discordian practice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPNin0-dLVE It is no surprise that no one was hanged for the crimes under the regime. All happy fraud of knowing deception. The absurd aspect is that Die Partei hat immer Recht was a slogan of the party and later conveyed that ironical self-criticism. Als a slogan it thus means ‘we are the hypocrites’. It is stalinesque subversive adsurdity that whenever it clashed with mind creates a certain surrealism only known from discordian practice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPNin0-dLVE

It is no surprise that no one was hanged for the crimes under the regime. All happy fraud of knowing deception.

]]> Comment on Waiting for OOXML by Boycott Novell » Has Broken OOXML Faltered Again and Missed an Important Deadline? http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/02/waiting-for-ooxml/#comment-746 Boycott Novell » Has Broken OOXML Faltered Again and Missed an Important Deadline? Sun, 04 May 2008 06:11:29 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/02/waiting-for-ooxml/#comment-746 [...] wrote about it less than a week ago and now comes the update, followed by some sad homour. At the time this post is being written, there is still no news of [...] […] wrote about it less than a week ago and now comes the update, followed by some sad homour. At the time this post is being written, there is still no news of […]

]]> Comment on Comparing online newsreaders by Charles http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/04/29/comparing-online-newsreaders/#comment-744 Charles Sat, 03 May 2008 10:42:13 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/04/29/comparing-online-newsreaders/#comment-744 @brad: Hey Brad, good to see you're reading my blog! Here's my feedback about your plans. I'm very hapy you want to start working back on Blorq. Now I am very wary of SilverLight, as it is not an open technology in any sense of the word, but I guess you were expecting this from my side... May I suggest plain old good web standards? On a more positive note, here's what I thought about the "social side" aspect of it. Using more microformats and carrying the concepts of Sets forward (I guess you already wanted to do that though) and with the inclusion of social features (microformats such as FOAF here once again) and perhaps even logging in through OpenID? I' ll be glad to bring my feedback even further, but as you know; this is the easiest part of the job.. ;-) Thanks for your input! @brad:
Hey Brad, good to see you’re reading my blog!
Here’s my feedback about your plans. I’m very hapy you want to start working back on Blorq.
Now I am very wary of SilverLight, as it is not an open technology in any sense of the word, but I guess you were expecting this from my side… May I suggest plain old good web standards?

On a more positive note, here’s what I thought about the “social side” aspect of it. Using more microformats and carrying the concepts of Sets forward (I guess you already wanted to do that though) and with the inclusion of social features (microformats such as FOAF here once again) and perhaps even logging in through OpenID?

I’ ll be glad to bring my feedback even further, but as you know; this is the easiest part of the job.. ;-)

Thanks for your input!

]]> Comment on Comparing online newsreaders by brad http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/04/29/comparing-online-newsreaders/#comment-743 brad Fri, 02 May 2008 20:52:58 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/04/29/comparing-online-newsreaders/#comment-743 [I am the one and only guy behind blorq.com] Thanks for the nice words Charles! Sorry the project slowed, i have been very busy lately and the html/css/js combo of technologies is not my focus anymore. I am thinking about building a silverlight version of blorq leveraging all the exisiting backend and i would love feedback on that. [I am the one and only guy behind blorq.com]

Thanks for the nice words Charles! Sorry the project slowed, i have been very busy lately and the html/css/js combo of technologies is not my focus anymore. I am thinking about building a silverlight version of blorq leveraging all the exisiting backend and i would love feedback on that.

]]> Comment on Waiting for OOXML by Charles http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/02/waiting-for-ooxml/#comment-742 Charles Fri, 02 May 2008 15:34:43 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/02/waiting-for-ooxml/#comment-742 Rob, I am interested, please send it to me! Thanks, Charles. Rob,

I am interested, please send it to me!

Thanks,
Charles.

]]> Comment on Waiting for OOXML by Rob Weir http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/02/waiting-for-ooxml/#comment-741 Rob Weir Fri, 02 May 2008 15:23:27 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/02/waiting-for-ooxml/#comment-741 Charles, Something even stranger to note. For a brief time yesterday, the "final" text of OOXML was posted on the SC34 web site. This was the post-BRM version with all the edits, the version that was due a month after the BRM. It was only up for a few hours before it was pulled for unknown reasons. But it was there long enough for me to download. Let me know if anyone wants a copy. Charles, Something even stranger to note. For a brief time yesterday, the “final” text of OOXML was posted on the SC34 web site. This was the post-BRM version with all the edits, the version that was due a month after the BRM. It was only up for a few hours before it was pulled for unknown reasons. But it was there long enough for me to download. Let me know if anyone wants a copy.

]]> Comment on Waiting for OOXML by Charles http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/02/waiting-for-ooxml/#comment-740 Charles Fri, 02 May 2008 15:04:30 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/02/waiting-for-ooxml/#comment-740 libervisco, I think that we still have to see the death or demise of ODF. To be sure, there are strong pressures against it, but instead of trying to make a point of theory, I'd just mention real "business cases" as they call it that show that ODF isn't going anywhere but up: - South Africa, India, Italy, Norway, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Korea... And that's on a country level. I don't list the regions (Extremadura...), the companies and the administrations adopting it now, even after OOXML was stamped as an ISO standard. So I think the future will definitely be interesting. But think of the ISO story as nothing more - and nothing less- than a bloody draw. Thanks! Charles. libervisco,

I think that we still have to see the death or demise of ODF. To be sure, there are strong pressures against it, but instead of trying to make a point of theory, I’d just mention real “business cases” as they call it that show that ODF isn’t going anywhere but up:
- South Africa, India, Italy, Norway, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Korea… And that’s on a country level. I don’t list the regions (Extremadura…), the companies and the administrations adopting it now, even after OOXML was stamped as an ISO standard. So I think the future will definitely be interesting. But think of the ISO story as nothing more - and nothing less- than a bloody draw.

Thanks!
Charles.

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