http://standardsandfreedom.net A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz. Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:54:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  The news have fallen out of the teleprompters. I couldn't keep that for much longer. I'm giggling on my chair and nibbling sheets of paper. Outside, people are gathering on the sidewalks. You could almost guess the humming of the press and the accelerating trucks of local news networks everywhere ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/27/mission-accomplished-or-so-they-said/ Fedora 10 has been released, got many good reviews, while Mac sales are still up and this is not even the Holiday Season. The other day, this article caught my eyes. What it is essentially saying is that the download numbers for Fedora. It only takes into account the ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/26/numbers-downloads-and-straws/ After some time of long and intensive work, we completed our migration to our new infrastructure. We migrated our corporate website to a new server and we moved from a FreeBSD-powered server running Caudium to a Gentoo platform with Apache running on top of it. You won't notice much, except ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/18/we-now-use-a-cms-and-so-can-you/ These news are a week old, but I thought it would be wise to have the dust settle a bit before writing about them. What was announced last week? The OpenOffice.org project had opened a project called the ODF Toolkit. What this project was all about, really, was to design a ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/13/so-you-thought-openofficeorg-controlled-odf-think-again/ I have refrained to express most of my political views in this blog, although I very often pushed the case for a better democracy though the means of real freedom of information and unbiased competition to the benefit of the public good. But today I thought I would write something ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/04/sic-transit-gloria-mundi-2/ I am bit swamped these days, and you must have noticed it by now. These things happen: lots of work items, lots of backlog, and lots of exhaustion as well. Since I don't want to leave this blog « unattended » for even 2 or three weeks, I am posting today some ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/ Louis Suarez-Potts uploaded the speech he gave on the OOo 3 Launch Party both in English and in French. Mine was given in French for obvious reasons. I thought some of my francophone readers would be interested in it as well. Enjoy!   Bonsoir, et merci à tous d'être ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/20/the-speech/ Now it's been days, and more than a week I haven't blogged. The reason is simple: I was swamped. But I ended up exhausted and happy. We've been releasing the 3.0. Yes, we did it, and we also threw a major party at the headquarters of the Region Île de France. ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/15/the-party-the-crash-and-the-30/ More information and registration link here. To answer to the question many around are asking: No, OpenOffice.org 3.0 has not been released yet. Target date is now 13th or 14th of October, and there will be a RC 4 coming in on Monday. In the meantime, I hope to see ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/02/join-us-at-the-openofficeorg-30-launch-party-13th-of-october-19h30-paris/ That's official, and an interesting, sad, and probably ridiculous page of the I.T. History is about to be turned: OOXML has been published in its final version. Has it really? Well, it turns out that OOXML does have lots of tricks up its sleeve. It seems that the specification ... http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/09/29/rhinoceros-final-version/