We have the entire ISO/IEC recommendations document [PDF] as text now, the memo with attachments, including all four of the appeals against OOXML, sent by Alan Bryden, Secretary-General and CEO, ISO, and Aharon Amit, General Secretary and CEO, IEC to the Technical Management Board regarding the disposition of the four appeals. They suggest deep sixing them. Thank you to everyone for helping.
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Piracy and Malware - Pfft!
A frequent meme in piracy trash talking is that piracy is linked to malware (example). If your child is downloading pirated material (so the argument goes) they will be downloading it from a malware infected site and infecting their own computer resulting in poor performance, data loss and ID theft. A variant of this argument is that the downloads expose the kids to evil pornographers.
Read more »Microsoft’s OOXML Dirty Tricks Are Back
Microsoft is buying the election and is set to decide on its non-existent proprietary formats next week
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GPL Project Watch List for Week of 07/18
The GPL v3 Watch List is intended to give you a snapshot of the GPLv3/LGPLv3 adoption for July 11th through Juky 18th, 2008.
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Microsoft is Paid for Ubuntu-based Dell PCs
Dell chooses convenience (and 'codecs tax') over the core values of GNU/Linux
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The "one line of code" rule - Any UnixWare in SCOsource?
In Judge Dale Kimball's recent order in SCO v. Novell, he accepted SCO's story about licensing practices. I think that was a mistake, and I'd like to show you why I think so. Here's what he wrote:UNIX licensees often distributed and used binary products that included code from multiple releases of System V.
Read more »SCO Files Monthly Operating Reports for June
So. Do they have enough money to pay Novell? That is the question. You might want to compare this month's filings with the ones they filed last month.
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Don't Forget UOF: Here Comes EIOffice 2009 (Updated)
Long time followers of the ODF-OOXML story will recall that there is a third editable, XML-based document format in the race to create the documentary record of history. That contender is called UOF - for Uniform Office Format, and it has been under development in China since 2002, although I first heard and wrote about it back in November of 2006.
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ISO is being challenged
I’ve meant to blog on several topics but just didn’t have the time to do so. I’m putting an end to more than a month of silence to highlight some interesting news from India.
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When Is Open Source Not That Open Source?
Setting the legal nuances of the chosen open source license aside, wouldn't two products under any open source license have the same claim to the open source moniker?
Read more »More Bills for SCO in the Bankruptcy - Will They Get Paid?
Of course there are more bills in the bankruptcy. Berger Singerman and Mesirow want to be paid again.
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Shuttleworth: Microsoft Does Not Want War
At OSCON, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, says he doubts Microsoft would file a claim against Linux developers.
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Customs to search for illegal downloads on MP3 players and laptops
MUSIC fans might soon have their iPods searched by Customs officers at airport checks - and face jail if pirated music is found on them.
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"PATCH: ELF registry now at Caldera" in 2002 and LKP and GNU Tools
Well, well. What have we here? It's a June 5, 2002 message posted by Lars Brinkhoff with that very subject line: "PATCH: ELF registry now at Caldera" in the mail archive of the binutils@sources.redhat.com mailing list for the GNU binutils project.
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Google Code stops accepting projects under MPL
Following GNU AGPLv3, Mozilla Public License is named as not popular enough by Google’s code hosting service.
“The search giant has said Google Code is no longer accepting projects licensed under MPL, although existing MPL-licensed code is allowed to stay.”
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