Freitag November 04, 2005

"An Open Letter to the Disabled of Massachusetts"
"There is a fundamental difference between your experiences of the past in the proprietary Microsoft world versus the F/OSS world. In the Microsoft world, nothing changes unless there is a profit to be made, and you know that, as a minority, you lack the financial leverage to move corporations. In the F/OSS world, change originates from individuals. Change happens when you, the user, express a need and get involved. You are not at the mercy of corporate programmers. You do not have to be a programmer to make a difference. We need testers, bug reporters, documentation writers, tutorial writers, artists, and advocates. We need your experience and guidance. We need and highly value your input. And if you are also a programmer, well that's good, but it isn't essential."

The full blog entry can be found here.
( Nov 04 2005, 03:42:40 PM CET ) Permalink

"Mozilla tests next Firefox release"
"New features in the browser include a better system for updating software, faster navigation using the "Back" and "Forward" tabs, and a redesigned Options/Preferences window that increases the number of category icons and moves them from the left side of the window to the top.

Firefox 1.5 also includes new support for Web standards, adding support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), JavaScript 1.6 and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). SVG is an XML-based language for writing sophisticated two-dimensional graphics, and JavaScript 1.6 is the latest versions of the Java scripting language. CSS is a W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standard for adding style, such as fonts, colors and spacing, to Web documents"

The full article can be found here.
( Nov 04 2005, 11:39:21 AM CET ) Permalink

BBC News: "Firefox fanbase reaches new high"
"The global average of 11.5% is the highest percentage of users that the open source browser has ever reached."
Found here.
( Nov 04 2005, 11:36:55 AM CET ) Permalink

"The Real Cost of Retraining for OpenOffice.org"
"Of course, the real training need will come with those advanced features of OpenOffice.org that differ most from the Microsoft Office features. Typically, no more than 10-15% of users will need those features, so the costs will still be manageable. Again, keeping an eye to the future, this training will not be necessary the next time around. So, the next time you hear that it will cost more to train users than to upgrade to the next iteration of Microsoft Office, you can say, "well, let's take a closer look at that..."."
The full article can be found here.
( Nov 04 2005, 07:54:46 AM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Open Office Document Connector
"The OASIS OpenDocument format was officially born this year. Its basic principles and the majority of its semantics and syntax came from the OpenOffice.org project. The OpenDocument format (ODF) is poised to become a de facto standard for the free office software and, in the long term, it could be used as a common basis for large-scale content management applications. So now is the right time to talk about Perl/OpenDocument integration."
The article can be found here.
( Nov 04 2005, 07:50:07 AM CET ) Permalink