That had to happen, and it had to be announced. Novell and Microsoft have basically extended their collaboration, although the point of such a partnership seems unclear to both of them if you read the fine print. On the one hand, Microsoft bought yet another share of Novell, this time …
So I am just back from vacation during which I unfortunately learnt about the war between Georgia and Russia. That is a complete madness and should be settled down as fast as possible otherwise I fear we will have a regional contagion. And remember, the war in Tchechenia is not …
Who would have believed it a few months ago? Who could tell Microsoft would “clarify” the coverage of its OSP and extend it to cover the GPL and FOSS developers as well as users? Clearly, pigs might actually fly, and Groklaw does think the same way. As it was not …
Ah, there we go! The surprise of the day really comes from -would you have guessed it?- Microsoft. Just for your record and under the auspices of Rick “Talking-in-the-wind” Jelliffe, (no offense, Rick), I hereby declare that… OOXML is still unavailable ! (drums and trumpets follow). But wait, there is …
Here’s a very interesting, down-to-earth page about the iPhone by the FSF. It’s worth remembering this kind of issues that come along with the iPhone, as much beautiful and enticing it is. Some musings on OpenSim and metaverse interoperaility. But why does OpenSim have to be developed on C# and .Net? Autonomo.us : Now that’s …
OOXML…. It’s been a long time I had not blogged about it. Well, there are news, and not of the mundane kind. As a starting point, always assume that despite what you are about to read everything is normal and OOXML (the ISO standard) has still not been published . …
It seems the Skeleton-in-the-closet Season has come. Yesterday, South Africa was leading what became an unprecedented round of appeal against the -dare I say it- Microsoft Office Open XML format. But just when South Africa had filed that appeal, the news came that Brazil and India were voicing similar complaints. …
The story of OOXML and in general the story of proprietary formats and protocols being used and promoted to control the market and the access of citizens to digital re sources is a long but fascinating one. The three (yes, three) last episodes of the OOXML story are a good …
That’s official and it comes from Alex Brown, the convener of the OOXML ballot at the ISO/IEC’s JTC-1: Tracks of OOXML have been found somewhere around the ITTF. The story we now have is that the ITTF received a draft of OOXML on the 29th of March but refused to …