Wednesday August 08, 2007 links for 2007-08-08
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Bookmark this story for use the next time you hear a US spokesman complaining about protectionism and barriers to free trade.
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You may remember iTunes had this feature when it was launched and Apple removed it. I wonder how long they will tolerate it being re-instated? The JXTA folks have had this working for ages, by the way.
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"Arturo Mann proudly announces that he has successfully synthesized the S1 Core on a Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA device." OpenSPARC on an FPGA. Amazing how fast this industry moves.
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American Airlines clearly getting ready to differentiate when Virgin America launches. I think the US airline market just got interesting.
Posted by webmink
( Aug 08 2007, 01:21:40 AM PDT )
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In case you didn't notice, Apple's latest "office suite" supports Office OpenXML and not ODF. Looks like OpenXML isn't that hard to implement after all.
Posted by 59.92.202.133 on August 08, 2007 at 07:18 AM PDT #
Y'think? I think:
* Apple have implemented the necessary subset for document display and exchange, not necessarily all the questionable parts;
* Apple's motivation was a key senior exec mandate and I think they had easy access to support;
* As Apple's implementation is proprietary and they have a special relationship with the IP owner they have none of the rights issues dogging others;
* Apple has already implemented ODF as a platform feature in Leopard (see TextEdit);
* If it was easy, Microsoft wouldn't be so late implementing it in their own Mac products.
Oh, and if you want this conversation to continue and not be deleted, please identify yourself, house rules on my blog.
Posted by Simon Phipps on August 08, 2007 at 06:38 PM PDT #