So now Brian Jones is all about explaining the infamous conspiracy’s plans to portray the distribution of the Ecma answers as being closed and locked up by MS. That’s not how I understand it. The problem here is that there seems to be some attention paid at veiling the information …
A quite interesting thread in the comments on my latest piece. Who got the point? Well, that’s the trick:I have the feeling we’re still talking about different things. And the discussion is raging on, so let’s just hope it will remain polite. Mac Upgrade: Leopard is shaky and eats up …
Recently the Ecma announced that they would be posting their first set of answers to the comments made by the national standardization committees on OOXML. The Ecma claims this first set covers about 19% of the comments. While I appreciate the reactivity of the Ecma in these matters, I can’t …
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 …
These are almost old news, but it seems that since we’re based in Europe it took some time and went through different channels. Ars Aperta has joined the OpenInvention Network. The question that would immediately pop to some of my readers’ mind would be: what the heck is OpenInvention Network? …
ﾠ Today I’m in London attending the OpenSource Summit and listening to Bruce Perens. I landed yesterday evening in London under a violent storm that caused the plane to be very shaky (it will be interesting to fly back this evening). Being shaken up and down and back and forth …
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 Enlightenment is best described as an intellectual and philosophical movement that helped shape the European civilization in the XVIIIth century. In a way, it is the time where Europe entered what is sometimes referred as the « modern times ». Unlike the movie with Charlie Chaplin bearing the same …
This article is my first one on Groklaw. I really wanted to express my feelings about the whole story concerning Novell’s fork. And by the way, are they really forking? There are still several engineers from Novell out there on our mailing lists, and I wish we can still work …