Taken from the GullFOSS blog, Andreas Mertel’s post, this is how MS Office 2008 on Mac OS X may look like, if you don’t pay enough attention: Now this is, after 5 minutes of fiddling with pretty much every toolbar possible, how OpenOffice.org 3.01 looks on my Fedora 10: To …
I wrote a bit more about Ars Aperta’s new certification project. The basic idea is to award certifications to organizations that contribute or lead FOSS projects. Several types of certification exist, but in this article I discuss the specifics of what is probably the first comprehensive FOSS certification to date …
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 …
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 …
These days are occasions to celebrate, both for the ODF and OpenOffice.org communities. Yesterday was the Document Freedom Day, celebrating the liberation of documents through open standards such as ODF. This global initative attempts to let people know about the importance of true Open Standards and why they matter in …
Some unfortunate news have been spreading around the web recently concerning « OpenOffice.org dying » and has sparkled some interesting articles. I got interviewed here, some very good answer to those extravagant claims was posted on the Sun OpenOffice.org’s blog, and I am pretty sure that we will read more and more …
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. …
The time of the year for predictions started in December, the time of resolutions started a few days ago. Let’s tie those together in this post…Predictions: It will be a great year for Free & Open Source Software. I know it’s been written several times that because of dwindling I.T. …
This post is a bit hard to write. Let me just put it this way: If my predictions below are true, it will mean that Microsoft will offer some crippled and low-level support of ODF 1.1 in its next version of Microsoft Office. It will also mean that OpenOffice.org will …