On the same day that I read that the South Africa standards body has filed an official appeal against the approval of OOXML with ISO/IEC, I find Patrick Durusau has written the following outrageous words [PDF] regarding Microsoft's announcement it will support ODF, and trust me when I tell you the opening is just a taste:
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Quick Mention: Hungary and “Microsoft Corruption”
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Details surface about allegations of Microsoft corruption that led to egg throwing.
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Document Formats Roundup: ODF Gets the Upper Hand
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Increasing levels of evidence that ODF gives Microsoft a run for the money, a run from the law (and a runaway from EU fines).
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OOXML Roadblock Now in Place; Please Contact Your National Standards Body Within Days
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Readers are encouraged to phone their standards bodies now, in order to pull another nail off OOXML's ISO coffin.
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South Africa Files Official Appeal Re OOXML - OOXML in Limbo Now
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Andy Updegrove has the news that South Africa has filed an official appeal, protesting the approval of OOXML, and their action means that OOXML is now in limbo until the appeal ends:SABS, the National Body member of ISO/IEC JTC1 for South Africa, has filed a formal appeal with both ISO and IEC, challenging the Fast Track adoption of OOXML.
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A look at the way Microsoft's partners -- including Novell -- all join together against Linux-friendly circles.
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"Pay attention to your freedom instead of self-serving forecasts" - RMS speaks with Poornam Media
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RMS: «If Microsoft says that ['era of open computing'], it appears to be an attempt at a self-fulfilling prophesy. If people believe it, they may make it come true. The way to deal with that is to refuse to let Microsoft lead you. Pay attention to your freedom instead of self-serving forecasts ...
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State of the Zooming User Interface (ZUI) for KDE 4.1
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Chani Armitage has been hacking on ZUI for KDE 4.1. It ’s far from complete, but it’s at least becoming something you can actually use now. Keyboard shortcuts can be used to navigate it quickly and clicking an activity containment will make it the active one. She also added an option for removing activities.
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Freedom is... the GNU Operating System
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* «With the Hurd, users can change anything in their system which doesn't affect other users.»
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Google should adopt AGPL and embrace Freedom for Network Services...
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Gentoo 2008.0 beta2 - Even Better
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Last night I decided to give Gentoo 2008.0 beta2 a try. All I got to say is wow! It installed much easier than Gentoo 2008.0 beta1 and is probably one of my fastest Gentoo installs ever.
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Sudden death of DRM at harvard:Zuneral this Saturday!
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We regret to report the sudden, unexpected death of Digital Rights Management. Details of the tragedy at present remain unclear, but he was rushed to the hospital following a direct collision with an oncoming future last week at 10 PM. He was seven years old.
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Blender 2.46 released
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The work of the past half year - also thanks to the open movie project "Big Buck Bunny" - has resulted in a greatly improved feature set, now released as Blender 2.46, the "Bunny release"!
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FOSS helps Free Geek Vancouver become an ethical recycler
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Free Geek Vancouver (FGV) is now certified as the first ethical recycler in western Canada by the Basel Action Network (BAN), and an important part of the certification is the organization's refurbishing of used computers with free and open source software (FOSS).
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South Africa appeals against ISO's OOXML decision
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South Africa has filed an official appeal against the ISO's fast-track decision to approve Microsoft's OOXML format as an international standard.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.
