The folks over at WordPress have just released a major new release, version 2.1. It looks like there are a lot of features that will make my life easier. I’m probably going to experiment with this on a site other than my main Open Blog, just to make sure I understand it and to give [...]
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Open standards, open source, open minds, open opportunities
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links for 2007-01-23
Linux Foundation AnnouncementPC World - Two Major Linux Groups Merge to Fight Microsoft(tags: linux opensource microsoft)Linux Foundation Formed With Backing From HP, IBM, Intel - Open Source Development Labs, Free Standards Group, Linus Torvalds - CRN(tags: linux opensource microsoft)Groups merge to create Linux Foundation - ZDNet UK(tags: linux opensource microsoft)New Linux Foundation Launches - Merger [...]
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OSDL + FSG = The Linux Foundation |
No Nürnberg
Weather and plane maintenance problems have conspired against my speaking at the Open Source Meets Business in Nürnberg, Germany, this week.In case you are interested, my 6 hours at the airport went something like this:I arrived at the airport 2 hours early and by then my flight to Chicago was already an hour late.15 [...]
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#8. My Second Life: Real Estate
In the last installment I talked about land in Second Life. If you have land, you probably want to do something with it. That might be to resell it at a profit or to develop it in some way. I started with one lot, then added another adjacent to it, then bought another one elsewhere [...]
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#4. Contradicting Microsoft Office Open XML - ZDNet UK
Rupert Goodwins of ZDNet UK has posted a blog entry “Six thousand pages, one month, no chance…” as a follow up to the Groklaw piece from yesterday. He says, in part:If OOXML is too dangerous to go through as an international standard — and, as I said, with the best will in the world I [...]
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#2. Contradicting Microsoft Office Open XML
Andy Updegrove has written a very nice piece called “The Contradictory Nature of OOXML” about some of the problems with Microsoft’s Office Open XML specification that it would like the ISO to adopt in addition to ODF. Toward the end he says:As the February 5 deadline for report ing contradictions approaches, I expect that you’ll [...]
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links for 2007-01-18
Open SourceOpen Source Challenges Vista at U.K. Education Show‘At the beginning of the assignment, Microsoft’s commitment to ODF was assessed by Oakleigh as being “in denial.” At the end of the assignment it was assessed by them as “grudging acceptance” of the ODF standard.’(tags: microsoft odf vista)Red Hat becomes the 100th member of COSS“Red Hat [...]
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#3. Contradicting Microsoft Office Open XML - Groklaw
Hot on the heels of Andy Updegrove’s piece about the inherent problems with Microsoft’s Office Open XML spec as it hopes to get ISO standardization, we have an extensive piece on the same subject over at Groklaw: “Searching for Openness in Microsoft’s OOXML and Finding Contradictions.” This is quite a long piece and touches on [...]
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#7. My Second Life: Land
Buy low, sell high.Location, location, location.In Second Life (SL), good luck with either of these if you are just getting started with buying some land.Assuming you have some Linden dollars (L$), you can buy land and set up a residence or a business of some sort. If you want to buy land that came from [...]
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Nürnberg next week
I’ll be giving a keynote on the Investment Day of the Open Source Meets Business conference in Nürnberg, Germany, next Tuesday. The talk is called “Open and Private Source: The Business Model behind IBM’s Software Strategy.” The abstract isIn the last decade, the move to open source and standards has significantly changed the way IBM [...]
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Web(2.0)Sphere?
Some of my IBM colleagues have asked that I give you a pointer to some cool new AJAX/Web 2.0/WebSphere technology called the Ajax for IBM WebSphere® Platform. The intro on the site says:The Ajax for IBM WebSphere® Platform Early Program is an optionally installable product extension for IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1 and WebSphere [...]
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Another long drive
I just got home from another long drive from southern New York. Once again, it was dark, foggy, wet and, in places, icy. This was one short trip where I was going to fly down to the White Plains airport and back today, but we discovered that the direct flights were canceled as of January [...]
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Finland in February |
ODF is starting to take hold in Argentina
We have word from Argentina that ODF has been adopted by the Government of Misiones (a province in the north-east of Argentina):En consecuencia, se adoptan los siguientes formatos para documentos electrónicos ofimáticos:* El formato OpenDocument para los documentos que el receptor eventualmente deba modificar el contenido.* El formato PDF/A para los documentos que sean de [...]
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