Today the Easter Bunny (that means me on this blog), who’s very early because it’s Good Friday but also the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad and the first day of Spring, is bringing you some links for you to read this week-end. – Rick Jelliffe gets a cold shower by …
In the course of the last two days, two major aspects of the OOXML standardization efforts have been revisited by renowned experts. Unfortunately, what sounded like gestures of goodwill by Microsoft is being seriously challenged on a legal and technical point of view. The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), the …
I don’t write that much about the overhyped “web 2.0” name, but this article from TechCrunch got me thinking. Could there be a new and an old Microsoft? Could there be the Microsoft we all know (Windows, MS Office, OOXML, monopoly) and another Microsoft (young, web 2.0-ish, cloud-oriented) and blissfully unaware of …
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 …
That’s right, OOXML actually got a little bit better in Geneva. Not slimmer, not faster, not anymore standards compliant nor open. No. It just got weirder. See what one delegate from Brazil has to say about it. Now, there is even weirder : New rules seemed to have been written …
Hear, hear ! OpenOffice.org should be released on the 13 of March 2008. That means… soon. I thought I would link to the list new features of this last major release of OpenOffice.org before the 3.0. In short, this release will allow direct PDF import and limited handling of PDF/A. …
Update: I think the article from CIO says it all. The Head of Delegation of the ANSI (USA) explains what went wrong. I think it’s a pity that the BRM ended up like this. In a nutshell, the whole idea of the BRM was to discuss the proposals from Ecma and the …
This example of corporate citizenship is striking, and brought me to tears. Microsoft helps NGOs in India, a fascinating country with a fast-growing economy, but unfortunately with strong social inequalities and poverty. I find it deeply moving, and socially responsible that such a large and wealthy corporation has found the …
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, …