02.13.10
Posted in Europe, Free/Libre Software, IBM, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, Oracle at 5:33 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary : A potpourri of news from the past week or so, starting with success stories and proceeding to releases of new software that supports OpenDocument Format (ODF)
O DF is facing resistance from Microsoft and its extended family that includes Alex Brown and Miguel de Icaza, as we showed last night . Despite this opposition, ODF keeps winning in more nations and corporations …
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01.30.10
Posted in Europe, Free/Libre Software, FUD, KDE, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, Oracle, Standard, SUN at 4:00 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary : Victories for ODF, especially in Denmark; other developments that bring about better ODF support, still facing the usual FUD from Redmond
N ORWAY’S special story when it comes to document formats was told here many times before. It’s a mixture of huge Microsoft scandals (corruption followed by rewards ) and an eventual victory for freedom and justice. Here is …
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01.21.10
Posted in America, Apple, Europe, Google, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, Standard, Wikipedia at 6:01 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary : Overview encompassing 3 weeks of ODF progress and victories
I T has been a long time since our last ODF update, so here is a long post catching up with key events and developments.
According to Peter Krantz , a seminar on ODF took place at Copenhagen Business School one week ago. Bart Hanssens and others noticed it and Hanssens has added this event to the ODF …
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12.16.09
Posted in America, Europe, Free/Libre Software, ISO, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, Standard at 2:08 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Also see: Judge Likens Microsoft’s Effect on Java to a Bang on the Knee
Summary : The ups and downs of ODF, the latter being largely the result of Microsoft’s gentle blows
O DF (OpenDocument Format) is still doing pretty well, especially in developing countries like Brazil (also here ) and nations where corruption rates are low (notably Scandinavia).
According to this …
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12.14.09
Posted in America, Antitrust, Bill Gates, Europe, Finance, Fraud, Microsoft, Open XML, Oracle, Patents, Protocol, SUN at 9:03 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary : Microsoft’s political side shows its face in many areas, both in Europe and in the United States
A N important subject that wrote about a few days ago [ 1 , 2 ] is this arrangement between the US Department of Justice and Microsoft . This is summarised by the Microsoft reporters as follows: “Microsoft Nears DoJ OK to Collect Protocol Fees”
Microsoft will …
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12.08.09
Posted in Europe, Formats, OpenDocument, Standard at 5:52 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary : Updates on ODF progress around the world, among developers, and in committees
T HE NEWS about Slovakia choosing ODF (OpenDocument Format) was last mentioned in September and now we have Jan Husar stating that “OOXML didn’t made it into national standards and ODF can be used in any version!”
This message was passed on by Rob Weir and many other people …
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10.02.09
Posted in Africa, Apple, Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Open XML, OpenDocument, Standard at 6:24 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary : Another migration to Free software and ODF in Denmark; ways in which Microsoft currently responds to the “ODF threat”
N OT only the third world is embracing ODF , thanks in part to a recent initiative from Canonical and IBM * . Highly developed nations too have decided that ODF is the better route, debunking myths of “poor man’s standards”.
As a spurious …
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07.11.09
Posted in Asia, Europe, Fraud, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML, OpenDocument, Standard at 3:33 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
“The Norwegian [OOXML] affair was a scandal and we are still pursuing it. We haven’t given up hope of changing the vote back to No, and we hope people who experienced similar travesties in other countries will do the same.”
– Steve Pepper
Summary : Norway embraces ODF and maybe Ogg too; ODF in general spreads rapidly
N OT so long …
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