"France has voted against adoption of Microsoft Corp.'s document format Office Open XML as an international standard, while Australia has decided to abstain..."
Read more »ISO Will Announce on Tuesday that OOXML Approval has Failed
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"With the polls now closed and the early results in (some public, some not), think it's time to predict with assurance that ISO will announce tomorrow that ISO/IEC DIS 29500, the draft specification based upon Microsoft’s Office Open XML formats, has failed to achieve enough yes votes to gain approval at this time..."
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Shame, Joy, and Anxiety
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On August 21, just 10 days ago (it feels like 10 weeks ago), ABNT, the Brazilian standards organization, held the final meeting to decide whether to Yay or Nay OOXML... and other less joyous news from Brazil.
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How Linus copes with criticism
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So, you want to be a kernel hacker. Before you go down that path, or get involved with any other free or open source development project, you should know that it's often a wild, raucous place where -- no matter what level of coding skill you possess -- your tolerance for criticism or rejection might constantly be tested. Even Linus Torvalds isn't immune to criticism.
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Full Circle Issue 4 is out
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Full Circle - the Ubuntu Community Magazine are proud to
announce our fourth issue. It contains : Edubuntu - What’s in it for the kids?; How-To : Hosting Code on LaunchPad, Learning Scribus part 4 and Keep your kids safe in Ubuntu; Preview of Miro 0.9.8.'; Interview with Ubuntu Developer Colin Watson; Letters, Q&A, MyDesktop, MyPC, Top5 and more!
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2010: The year of the Linux Desktop
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In order to determine when ‘the year of the Linux desktop’ arrives, we should look back in history and determine when ‘the year of the Windows desktop’ arrived and under what circumstances.
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DRM - Trash Vista, Not Your Computer
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"...Today, an international coalition of environmental and social justice groups have signed a joint statement condemning DRM, specifically the DRM platform known as Microsoft Vista..."
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How people can miss what is Free Software and offend everyone in the process
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The developers of Pligg (the engine behind FSDaily) are willing to sell Pligg. The problem here is not the selling but what they are saying.
It is unbelievable that they miss completely what is the FSM, what "community" means and where they will be today if that community didn't have promoted them. They even call us free-riders in a very offensive way. Read more at the forum.
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My recommendation on Office Open XML: "No with Comments"!
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"...I strongly urge them to vote “No with Comments”, specifically with my comments..."
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Meet Linux Genuine Advantage
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p2pnet news | Open Source:- Are you a Linux user who’s feeling disadvantaged, ignored and unloved because you don’t have Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage looking out for you?
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FSF - Microsoft cannot declare itself exempt from the requirements of GPLv3
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"Microsoft has engaged in anticompetitive conduct in the software industry for many years, and has sought to attack free software for almost as long," Free Software Foundation says
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LinuxChix Women's mini-conf: Call for Presentations
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The premier annual Linux and Open Source conference in Australia, linux.conf.au, is once again hosting a LinuxChix mini-conf. We are now calling for presentations by women on both Free Software technical topics and other topics of general interest to women involved in Free Software or working in IT.
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No news, but no snooze
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Two things piqued my interest recently. One was the iPlayer protests at the BBC, the other was the Wiki tracker project. More specifically, it was the reporting of these events. In the case of the former, it went virtually unreported and made me proud of our independent and open news sources and reporting network. The latter highlighted (again) the many issues of user-generated content.
Read more »FSF links up with environmental groups
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Continuing its efforts to connect with social activists, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released an open letter signed by major environmental organizations. The letter urges activists to reject lockdown technologies in general and Windows Vista in particular as hostile to their ethics and the causes they support, and to support free software instead.
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FSF Latin America Experiences Revival
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Blue GNU interviews Alexandre Oliva to learn about Free Software Foundation - Latin America. After a bit of a stuttering start, the FSFLA is definitely well under way and making strong progress.
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