Lots of interesting things happened these last days, and I was slow to catch up with them. A few of my highlights below: Rob Weir from IBM talks about the upcoming OpenDocument Format 1.2 and that’s what will shut the mouth of lots of OOXML minions. I’ve had enough of …
This article is my first one on Groklaw. I really wanted to express my feelings about the whole story concerning Novell’s fork. And by the way, are they really forking? There are still several engineers from Novell out there on our mailing lists, and I wish we can still work …
As the OOoCON 2007 is now over, some of you may ask what OpenOffice.org has in store for 2007 and 2008? That’s a good question. I’ll try to answer it. There will be two major milestones for OpenOffice.org in 2008. The first one will be the final agreement on MS …
So the conference is now in its last day and slowly drawing to an end. More interesting conferences to attend. I’m now at a conference showing the famous « Symphony » from IBM. It has a really nice interface is based on OpenOffice.org but works through the Eclipse framework (Eclipse …
Today was the first « real » day of the conference. I’m just done with my own presentation whose slides are available on the conference web site. Live coverage is done by Kiberpipa, a great team from Slovenia who’s been working with us ever since three years. Kudos to them! Now Rob …
This year I feel we’re going to have a great OpenOffice.org Conference, and that’s not just because I love Barcelona. I would like to invite the conference attendants to what has now become a tradition in the OOoCons, the Native-Language Party. Those parties are interesting opportunities to socialize and meet …
One much advertised part of the answer made by the Afnorwas the proposal to merge OOXML and ODF. I always thought that it was a great idea, because it sounds to me as a realistic way out to settle the dual standards conundrum. This concrete solution is also workable in …
So the world voted against MS OOXML. (No more OpenXML, please. Masks have falled down now.) The question that is worth asking now is threefold. Should the ISO accept to continue the OOXML standardization, through the process called the Ballot Resolution Meeting, considering the factual evidences of bribery, pressure, and …