I happen to write articles on email clients. And this time, my friend Tristan Nitot is not going to like it. Interesting description of one of the upcoming features in OpenOffice.org: Secured digital signatures. Guess what, we will soon be the only ones to have them! An excellent exemple on …
Dear readers, This is not a regular post. In France we always had had a strange institution called the Ministry of Culture. I qualify it as strange because although most French people never thought it was not an obvious part of the government abroad, having a Ministry of Culture is …
It is often pretty easy, and sometimes pretty boring as well to explain trends and patterns in decision-making and mentalities by alluding to the uniqueness of one given generation. I am not a big fan of the class holistics of marxism, and I therefore tend to buy more into the …
This post is a follow-up of yesterday’s piece, Predictions & Resolutions. Today I will list many things that do not relate to I.T. , some others that do. But in general, I’ll share what I’m mostly uncertain with for the year 2009.Doubts Israël has the right to exist, live in peace. …
To all my readers, to my colleagues at Ars Aperta, to my family, to Mel, to OpenOffice.org community, to the Libervis Network and the FOSS community in general, I would like to wish a Happy New Year 2009, good health, personal and professional success, strength, wisdom and beauty. I would …
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 …
Yesterday I was honored to receive the “Lutèce d’Or” trophy on behalf of the OpenOffice.org Project from the hands of Mr Besson, Minister of the Prospective and Digital Technologies of the French Republic. There was a standing ovation, but this one was not so much dedicated to my humble person …
Good question indeed. No, I am not referring to my yearly bloodtests; I am referring to this new advertising: Okay, that is pretty lame for a commercial involving Jerry Seinfeldt and Bill Gates. In fact, the message it sends is pretty bad for Microsoft in some sense. It implictly acknowledges …
Mr. President, I am writing you on my very own behalf. I have a bone to pick with you, and the readers of my blog should know my opinion in regards to what you and your government are trying to do to the Internet in the name of the so-called …