Julian Assange goes out of jail, fears for his life, while Bank of America blocks payments to Wikileaks. I didn’t know that Bank of America had so high moral standards. This is why I do expect that, after blocking the payments process to Wikileaks, Bank of America will also block …
The Wikileaks ongoing affair is taking an interesting turn. This is not a blog about how Julian Assange is currently being hunted down under some quite opportunistic sex offender’s charge. I would like to discuss why I believe that the man and site -hunt that’s going on around the world …
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 …
That’s something of an announcement for me. I have to say that I believed all the way during these elections that the odds were very much against me, but I was obviously wrong: I have been elected at the Board of the Directors of the OASIS Consortium. I feel both …
These days it’s pretty fashionable to discuss the iPad, and indeed the other evening Jerome, (the other co-founder of Ars Aperta) and I were talking about the iPad when he made a comment that is I think the key to understand Apple’s strategy. Just after Steve Jobs had made the …
We already knew Mahmud Ahmadinejad did not know how to count. He is part of this revisionist movement who believes that in order to have a truly non-aligned and anti-western political stance, you need to deny the reality of the WW2 Holocaust to better outline the grievances of your own …
IBM votes for OOXML at the ANSI (the U.S. standards body) and the Microsoft-sponsored mob rejoices. The problem? Despite what it seems, the rules of the particular TC at the ANSI did not allow members to go against a previous ISO vote on the standard. In short, Jesper & Co …
This week showed a quite surprising turn of events at the French Assemblée Nationale. The French Parliament actually rejected the infamous HADOPI law (the three-strikes law). More details here. Yet, while things could have remained the way they were, the government has decided to get this law passed again regardless …