The light is shed on OOXML; I’ve lost count of how many officious, ISO sub-versions (and subversions) , alongside the proprietary formats also called OOXML but used in MS Office are now floating in the air. In any case, this short document from the ODF Alliance explains this obscure matter …
Today is a special day. I feel both sad and relieved, happy and somewhat disgusted. I have officially resigned from all my duties, roles and positions inside the OpenOffice.org project. My resignation is effective immediately and I am leaving the project. I will now be contributing to the Document Foundation, …
The Internet, October 6, 2010 – One full week has gone by since the announcement of The Document Foundation, and we would like to share some numbers with the people who have decided to follow us since the first day. The beta of LibreOffice has been downloaded over 80.000 times. …
Weeell. It’s a heck of a day today. And somewhere along these lines, you are probably going to see why this blog wasn’t so active these past months. I will not go over the announcement again here, you can find it at our new website. But I would like to …
There’s a certain movement these days in the world of GNU/Linux distributions. I think we are experiencing one of these moments that starts with a question that has been asked and heard many times -should distros differentiate themselves in order to survive? & aren’t there too many distros out there?- …
Today I thought I would share with you how I experienced 9/11 2001. Not that I was anywhere near or inside the twin towers, the Pentagon, or in a plane that day: But I landed in Dallas Fort-Worth on a business trip on 9/10 around 7 pm local time. As …
I wish my vacations could have ended better. Don’t get me wrong, we spent a wonderful time for two weeks and are safely back home (and at the office). It’s the recent news that are really disappointing to me on so many levels. The Hungarian President ruling over France -I …
Can one sponsor sustain a FOSS project on the long term? A crucial question that comes with my crucial answer, this time on FOSSBazaar. After several articles in the press reporting on the Board of the OpenSolaris sabotaging itself, I wanted to clarify that the OpenOffice.org has fortunately a quite …