Dienstag Februar 06, 2007
Simon Phipps about OpenOffice.org
Here is a quote from my boss which might be interesting to the readers of my blog:
"So, I'm planning that over the coming months we will change the way that we're talking about our development of OpenOffice.org. I'm hoping that before long people will talk about StarOffice, Sun's distribution of OpenOffice.org, in the same way that they would talk about SuSE, Novell's distribution of GNU/Linux.
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I think that our desire to try and sell StarOffice in the past has led us to distance ourselves from OpenOffice.org, and that's a nutty crazy thing to do. All the people who do OpenOffice.org marketing started working for me last week: they're not going to do that [kind of thing] any more." (found here)
I probably should clarify that Simon meant the Sun OpenOffice.org marketing people that had not already worked for him. He is not talking about all the people from the OpenOffice.org marketing project!
Talking about jobs and roles at Sun, people with strong XML, C++ and Java technology skills should check out two new open reqs at Sun (this one and this one). BTW, Hamburg is a very nice city!!!
( Feb 06 2007, 06:37:08 AM CET )
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"Rumors" regarding the status of ECMA-376
Since the ISO contradiction period for ECMA Office Open XML ended yesterday, I guess posting a few "rumors" I found on the web won't influence the process anymore. Thus, here they are:
● OOXML ISO fast track opposition update
● Microsoft standards bid faces failure
● Microsoft push on XML irks industry
● How Many Contradictions Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?
( Feb 06 2007, 06:30:22 AM CET )
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A case for open source software
This article makes a good case for open soruce software. Here is a quote:
"Microsoft on Monday rebuffed a public appeal by Mikhail Gorbachev for its chairman, Bill Gates, to intervene on behalf of a Russian school principal charged with software piracy.
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Monday's request for Gates's involvement by Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union, followed condemnation of the prosecution by Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, last week in response to the first question at his annual news conference.
"To grab someone for buying a computer somewhere and start threatening him with prison is complete nonsense, simply ridiculous," Putin said. "The law recognizes the concept of someone who purchased the product in good faith."
Gorbachev, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, said Ponosov — a school principal in a village in the Urals — risks imprisonment in a Siberian camp for using unlicensed Windows software that he said was pre-installed on the computers. Russian media have reported that Ponosov faces up to five years in prison and a fine of 266,000 rubles, or $10,042, for copyright infringement."
( Feb 06 2007, 06:18:26 AM CET )
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