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. …
Last week I attended the OpenWorld Forum Conference (to be distinguished from our good friends of OpenForum Europe) and I met several interesting people. The location was very nice and I look forward its second edition; many thanks to our hosts and the conference organisers. One specific conference I was …
Yesterday I was honored to receive the “Lutèce d’Or” trophy on behalf of the OpenOffice.org Project from the hands of Mr Besson, Minister of the Prospective and Digital Technologies of the French Republic. There was a standing ovation, but this one was not so much dedicated to my humble person …
Now this is becoming interesting, or perhaps just very unfortunate: The countries appealing against the ISO procedure on the OOXML standardization have signed and sent a letter of protest to the ISO. “ CONSEGI 2008 DECLARATION We, the undersigned representatives of state IT organisations from Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, …
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 …
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 …
I have frequently expressed myself about the patent and business agreement between Novell and Microsoft. One and a half year later, this agreement continues to concern me and many others; last week however, we learned about another patent agreement, or rather a legal settlement on software patents involving Red Hat …