Some random stuff for this week-end. Hope it is sunny for you all. I’m writing -as usual- from Paris but my thoughts are geared towards Le Mans’ s 24 hours car race. Go Corvette! – Are the GPL and mergers compatible? That’s the topic I have recently discussed on FOSSBazaar …
You may recall one of my previous post about the FOSSBazaar project. Following that post, I was invited by the FOSSBazaar team to join the project. I would like to seize that opportunity for having let my company and myself to join the FOSSBazaar project. You will find our announcement here . As an introductory “article”, …
Very recently, the OpenOffice.org project has made two very important announced that will help shape the way the project will work and evolve in the future. As we are in the eve of the release of OpenOffice.org 2.4, I thought it might be the time to discuss the reasons underlying …
Before you run away from this page thinking that I will vomit the snakes of hell on Microsoft’s latest press release, I just wanted clarify that it will not be the case, because I think the message Microsoft has sent yesterday has been completely misunderstood. Here’s why. To be sure, …
Hewlett-Packard released two very interesting web sites last week, fossology.org and fossbazaar.org . While Fossology is a project aiming to develop data analysis tools on FOSS, fossbazaar is more of a portal on FOSS governance and adoption strategy for organizations. I really like this kind of initiatives, although fossbazaar.org obviously …
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. …
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 …
The Enlightenment is best described as an intellectual and philosophical movement that helped shape the European civilization in the XVIIIth century. In a way, it is the time where Europe entered what is sometimes referred as the « modern times ». Unlike the movie with Charlie Chaplin bearing the same …
The title of this blog piece may surprize. Would I have turned to the side of the so-called content industry that is usually represented by the MPAA/RIAA and in France the SACEM? Quite the contrary. In fact what I would like to discuss here is what I feel as a …