Happy New Year to all of you! How did New Year’s eve go? I hope you’re all fine, well rested and done with that hangover of yesterday… As for me it wasn’t the case and it comes as a surprize: I went to bed at four in the morning, partied …
Dear readers, I would first like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 2008 will be exciting, but most of you already know it. Today I would like to tell you about something I have discussed here and on several other places, such as mailing lists. …
– “Microsoft denied on Friday antitrust claims from Opera Software that the software giant is abusing its dominant market position to lock users into the Internet Explorer Web browser.” I love this sentence. – It’s been a long time I haven’t talked about OpenOffice.org. Some news: OpenOffice.org released the bug-fixing …
The Ecma is now advertizing the major changes they’re proposing through their answers and that does indeed sound good. I and others would even like to congratulate them if it weren’t for the complete opacity of the process and the fact that, despite what the Ecma and Microsoft claim, many of us, …
Sad farewell letter from Mr. Martin Bryan, now former convenor of the WG1 of the JTC-1 SC 34 (the ISO group working on OOXML and ODF). Alan Lord published it in extenso for fear that it would not stay long online, and since it’s rather short, I’ll publish as well …
So now Brian Jones is all about explaining the infamous conspiracy’s plans to portray the distribution of the Ecma answers as being closed and locked up by MS. That’s not how I understand it. The problem here is that there seems to be some attention paid at veiling the information …
A quite interesting thread in the comments on my latest piece. Who got the point? Well, that’s the trick:I have the feeling we’re still talking about different things. And the discussion is raging on, so let’s just hope it will remain polite. Mac Upgrade: Leopard is shaky and eats up …
Recently the Ecma announced that they would be posting their first set of answers to the comments made by the national standardization committees on OOXML. The Ecma claims this first set covers about 19% of the comments. While I appreciate the reactivity of the Ecma in these matters, I can’t …
ﾠ Today I’m in London attending the OpenSource Summit and listening to Bruce Perens. I landed yesterday evening in London under a violent storm that caused the plane to be very shaky (it will be interesting to fly back this evening). Being shaken up and down and back and forth …