South Africa takes a good shot at ISO and Microsoft for what it knows was a sham.

Collaboration on software development is essential, but
how do you include your partners, customers and even
competitors as part of an extended team? The Eclipse
Foundation's Ian Skerrett shares tips on using open source
software to establish an innovative network for IT.

Microsoft's comments appear to be backfiring in one place while absorbed peacefully by ZDNet.

This post was actually meant to be a response to a journalist who asked what I thought about the February 2008 announcement by Microsoft on their "Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability". To put into context, this was released on Feb 21st, the weekend before the BRM, so it was not particularly on my mind at that time.

When Bassim Hamadeh was a student at the University of California, San Diego, he experienced firsthand the challenge of procuring the right textbooks for his classes. "They were high-priced, poor quality custom textbooks," Hamadeh says.

I wish I could wholeheartedly applaud the Microsoft announcement about native support for ODF, but I can't. Of course, it's better to have native support for ODF, no matter what motives may have influenced Microsoft's announcement, and I'm glad about that for the sake of end users. But it hasn't happened yet. Was the word 'vaporware' not coined for Microsoft?

Yes, that's right no more desktop icons in KDE 4.1 well sort of. Read aseigo blog for details

The well-known Bill Beebe gives his take on Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring - "It has truly come a long way and is worthy of first consideration as an alternative OS."