To all my readers, to my colleagues at Ars Aperta, to my family, to Mel, to OpenOffice.org community, to the Libervis Network and the FOSS community in general, I would like to wish a Happy New Year 2009, good health, personal and professional success, strength, wisdom and beauty. I would …
This post is a bit hard to write. Let me just put it this way: If my predictions below are true, it will mean that Microsoft will offer some crippled and low-level support of ODF 1.1 in its next version of Microsoft Office. It will also mean that OpenOffice.org will …
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 …
The news have fallen out of the teleprompters. I couldn’t keep that for much longer. I’m giggling on my chair and nibbling sheets of paper. Outside, people are gathering on the sidewalks. You could almost guess the humming of the press and the accelerating trucks of local news networks everywhere …
Fedora 10 has been released, got many good reviews, while Mac sales are still up and this is not even the Holiday Season. The other day, this article caught my eyes. What it is essentially saying is that the download numbers for Fedora. It only takes into account the IP …
After some time of long and intensive work, we completed our migration to our new infrastructure. We migrated our corporate website to a new server and we moved from a FreeBSD-powered server running Caudium to a Gentoo platform with Apache running on top of it. You won’t notice much, except …
These news are a week old, but I thought it would be wise to have the dust settle a bit before writing about them. What was announced last week? The OpenOffice.org project had opened a project called the ODF Toolkit. What this project was all about, really, was to design …
I have refrained to express most of my political views in this blog, although I very often pushed the case for a better democracy though the means of real freedom of information and unbiased competition to the benefit of the public good. But today I thought I would write something …
I am bit swamped these days, and you must have noticed it by now. These things happen: lots of work items, lots of backlog, and lots of exhaustion as well. Since I don’t want to leave this blog « unattended » for even 2 or three weeks, I am posting today some …