Freitag Juni 24, 2005

"Italian lawyers in love with open source"
" Most of the time, open source supporters think of lawyers as a crowd of hungry vultures, throwing patents and cease-and-desist letters at innocent hackers. However, in the province of Foggia, Southern Italy, two small groups of lawyers have turned themselves into open source evangelists.

What? Did hell just freeze over? No, it's just common sense. The long-term availability and privacy of all legal documents deserve the highest possible guarantees. Only non-proprietary file formats like OpenDocument, the default format in OpenOffice.org 2.0, will always be legally accessible with any software program. Proprietary software, if loaded with DRM functionality, may silently track file modification and exchanges and automatically report it to third parties. So much for attorney/client privilege."

The full article can be found here.
( Jun 24 2005, 05:16:39 PM CEST ) Permalink

Solaris strong at LinuxTag 2005
I'm currently doing booth duty at the LinuxTag 2005 event in Karlsruhe, Germany. I'm surprised and amazed to see how strong the interest in Solaris is!!! We are quickly running out of our Solaris DVD kits and Solaris t-shirts! Everybody seems to be very open to Solaris and many people are anxious to play with DTrace and the container technology. I have the feeling that most people used Solaris in the past, played with Linux for a while and are now excited about the new features in Solaris 10 as well as the fact that Solaris has been open sourced as OpenSolaris. I guess we (Sun) should add some kind of "reviewers guide" to the DVD kit, so that users who are new to Solaris can quickly get started with the cool stuff like DTrace and containers.
( Jun 24 2005, 09:24:51 AM CEST ) Permalink

Undersecretary Vogt on Open Standards
"Undersecretary Vogt pointed out the importance of interoperability and open standards. For public authorities too open standards such as the new OASIS document format OpenDocument, currently used in the open-source Office Suite KOffice 1.4 and about to be used in the coming one OpenOffice 2.0 played an important role, she observed."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 24 2005, 09:21:56 AM CEST ) Permalink

OpenOffice.org training in Durban
"The company will offer Linux administration courses and OpenOffice.org courses at the Durban facility."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 24 2005, 09:05:40 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Indian OpenOffice roll-out continues"
"This week the government started distributing CDs in Hindi, according to R.K.V.S. Raman, a researcher at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, an organisation involved in the production of the CD. The initiative has been funded by the Indian government, which hopes to encourage the use of computers. It plans to distribute 3.5 million copies of the Hindi Language CDs."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 24 2005, 09:03:29 AM CEST ) Permalink