These days are occasions to celebrate, both for the ODF and OpenOffice.org communities. Yesterday was the Document Freedom Day, celebrating the liberation of documents through open standards such as ODF. This global initative attempts to let people know about the importance of true Open Standards and why they matter in …
Dear readers, This is not a regular post. In France we always had had a strange institution called the Ministry of Culture. I qualify it as strange because although most French people never thought it was not an obvious part of the government abroad, having a Ministry of Culture is …
Today I am thirty. And today, I have decided I would post a blog that would not be different from the my other posts. How’s that for genuine originality? So today’s topic will be a round-up of news on OpenDocument Format (ODF). It has been a long time I haven’t …
It is often pretty easy, and sometimes pretty boring as well to explain trends and patterns in decision-making and mentalities by alluding to the uniqueness of one given generation. I am not a big fan of the class holistics of marxism, and I therefore tend to buy more into the …
Call me pessimistic if you wish: Bad habits take a long time to die. Sometimes, they don’t even disappear at all. They keep on surviving. This time, it seems that Microsoft has decided to roam around and privateer against anything that looks even remotely like a company that could use …
Today I would like to react to the vague of criticism and skepticism that crushed on the announcement that the European Commission would give way to the filing of an anti-trust complaint by the Norwegian software vendor Opera. Critics were essentially insisting that this whole new legal action was …
Some unfortunate news have been spreading around the web recently concerning « OpenOffice.org dying » and has sparkled some interesting articles. I got interviewed here, some very good answer to those extravagant claims was posted on the Sun OpenOffice.org’s blog, and I am pretty sure that we will read more and more …
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. …