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Three reasons to feel outraged this week-end

Microsoft claims it was IBM who really screwed the whole OOXML standardization process. I beg to differ. Ars Aperta did most of the work! And it does not stop there. Ars Aperta is secretly in command of IBM (that’s the High Command Center against Microsoft and Everything American I have …

Links for mid-December (But we still want the f$*..cking password!)

– “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 …

Some evidence the Internet can help

Below you will find some links to resources that provide information on a broad range of topics, but each of them shows what can be achieved to help such things as transparency, free markets, democracy, and participation. Some of them accuse, others help promote and build a better world. Don’t …

Miscellanea for October’s end

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 times, there are a’changing

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 …

Live from the OOoCON in Barcelona

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 …

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