Thursday August 16, 2007 links for 2007-08-16
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A number of people have noted that, despite huge interest in open source in India, the levels of community contribution from India are low. This competition for students in India is intended to provide an impetus to address that.
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The (excellent) security specialist community at Sun starts using a "planet"-style aggregator to automatically generate its page.
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Wise posting from Mark, who is at pains to point out the OOXML/ODF debacle is not about opposing Microsoft, it is about positively promoting a single, transparently-created standard. We all win when that happens and lose when it fails (think VML).
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Interesting developments in China. The people making comments against OOXML here are widely respected in the Chinese technical arena. China is certainly a place I would expect to benefit from a converged, single standard.
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The news? Google is now shipping StarOffice for Windows as part of Google Pack. Late? Well, we're experimenting with doing first, talking later - the way Google tends to, in fact.
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Presumably the 21st century equivalent of keeping one foot on the floor?
Posted by webmink
( Aug 16 2007, 01:21:42 AM PDT )
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