http://standardsandfreedom.net A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:49:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   What you see above is very much what could be part of OpenOffice.org's upcoming visual design. The project has been working on several levels (and with some confusion as to what process and team was to come up with the first elements) on OpenOffice.org's next logo. What do we need ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/04/rebranding-openofficeorg/ In case you had missed that one, OpenOffice.org 3.2 has been released. It's fast. Really fast. And it comes with some nice extra features too, such as the import or OOXML files (not the ISO standard, which nobody, not even Microsoft can produce, but the file format of MS Office ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/02/18/links-for-mid-february/ This week started the wrong way. Some people started to create what is litterally a storm in the teacup, while some other people made announcements that in my view are extremely disappointing and quite concerning for some practitioners of FOSS licensing management and consultancy. Let me explain this point ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/02/09/events-non-events/ So it happened. Oracle has swallowed Sun Microsystems. Monty should have gotten the news by now. Perhaps he could even be interested by the announcements of Oracle? They're hiring good sales reps. More seriously, the announcements done through webcasts and available on the Oracle website are very impressive, product-wise and ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/ This is also true for companies. Today, the European Commission has finally agreed to the purchase of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. Russian and Chinese authorities have yet to answer to this deal, but it seems that any Monty-backed answer would be more a delay than a stop for this merger ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/21/every-good-thing-has-an-end/ It's time to wake up. It really is. Google has decided to pull out of China (more or less) and the reactions of the press have been so far quite interesting, to say the least. I will not go over these events in detail. Shortly put, Google claimed it underwent ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/18/the-tale-of-the-chinese-skeletons-in-the-closet-and-the-pink-elephant-in-the-room/ It's been a month since I have installed Arch Linux on my workstation and I thought I would talk about this Linux distribution a bit. Arch Linux is pretty much all the rage these days in the world of Linux distributions. If we are to believe the famous Distrowatch stats ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/11/arch-linux-makes-linux-fun-to-use-again/ Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year's Eve, the "Help MySQL" initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn't somehow indecent. Let me explain. What does "Help MySQL" advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/ This will be the last post of the year 2009.  2010 will be an interesting year to come, for many reasons, and that's why I have outlined a few predictions below for the year to come. Feel free to comment or add to this list, and happy new year 2010! OpenOffice.org's ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/12/30/some-predictions-for-2010/ So I ended up... installing Arch Linux. And guess what? I love it. Everthing works. The installation process is a bit rough, but everything is logical and if you don't want to spend time doing it you can even use an impressive live-cd project, Chakra. Package management is also innovative ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/12/16/links-for-mid-december/