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Log: Planet run at Wed Jun 11 01:00:14 BST 2008 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.552&r2=1.553 Delta lines: +34 -29 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-06-10 17:59:50+0000 1.552 +++ atom.xml 2008-06-10 23:59:50+0000 1.553 @@ -5,9 +5,40 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2008-06-10T18:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-11T00:00:22+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards</title> + <link href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/"/> + <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=269</id> + <updated>2008-06-10T21:53:50+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Do you remember that total <a title="Digistan Mission" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/05/17/digistanorg/" target="_blank">Jerk</a> Dennis Byron? The chap who thought that Digistan was some sort of terrorist organisation? Well here&#8217;s a rather nicely ironic way to shove his ignorant and frankly stupid views in that familiar place where &#8220;the sun doesn&#8217;t shine&#8221;.</p> +<p>A fellow colleague on the blogosphere, <a title="Fanatic Attack!" href="http://www.fanaticattack.com/the-fanatics-behind-the-attack" target="_blank">Russell Ossendryver</a>, sent me an email linking to a recent <a title="Use Open Standards" href="http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/digistan/" target="_blank">on-line petition</a> instigated by <a title="John McCreesh of OpenOffice.org" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/06/03/british-citizens-or-residents-read-on/" target="_blank">John McCreesh</a> (of <a title="OpenOffice.org" href="http://www.OpenOffice.org" target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a>) on 10 Downing Street&#8217;s petition engine.</p> +<p>Basically it calls for the UK Government to:</p> +<blockquote><p>(1) Procure only information technology that implements free and open standards;</p> +<p>(2) Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open standards;</p> +<p>(3) Use only free and open digital standards in their own activities.</p> +<p>as adopted and proclaimed by the founders of the Digital Standards Organization in The Hague on 21 May 2008.</p></blockquote> +<p>That sounds like a fine idea to me! It would save the country literally hundreds of millions of pounds just for starters.</p> +<p>There are some particularly interesting names already on the list of signatories:</p> +<p>Mark Taylor (<a title="Open Source Consortium" href="http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/" target="_blank">Open Source Consortium</a>), Chris Puttick (CIO for <a class="external text" title="http://thehumanjourney.net" rel="nofollow" href="http://thehumanjourney.net/">Oxford Archaeology</a>), Glyn Moody (Journalist and Open Source Commentator: <a title="Glyn Moody's Blog" href="http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com</a>), and Ian Lynch (of <a title="INGOTS" href="http://theingots.org/" target="_blank">INGOTS</a> fame).</p> +<p>I&#8217;ve signed it. If you think that Open Standards are important (and you SHOULD if you are reading this!) then what are you waiting for? Click <a title="Petition for Open Standards in Government" href="http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/digistan/" target="_blank">here</a> and register your opinion.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to digg" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Technorati" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content> + <author> + <name>Alan Lord</name> + <uri>http://www.theopensourcerer.com</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">The Magic of Open Source</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed"/> + <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2008-06-11T00:00:21+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="en-us"> <title type="html">Who speaks Slovak and can translate this ODF related article???</title> <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/who_speaks_slovak_and_can"/> @@ -137,7 +168,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-06-10T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-11T00:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -207,7 +238,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-06-10T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-06-11T00:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -434,30 +465,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Motley Fool: âThe Fall of Microsoft Officeâ</title> - <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/810"/> - <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=810</id> - <updated>2008-05-29T20:31:04+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Lots of open source and open standards tech people, including me, have long anticipated this, but now a mainstream financial site, Motley Fool, is predicting &#8220;<a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/05/27/the-fall-of-microsoft-office.aspx">The Fall of Microsoft Office</a>.&#8221;</p> -<p>Microsoft has publicly announced it will support <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/">ODF</a> in its Office suite. If implemented honestly (a big question for Microsoft), this throws open the doors to competition in a way MSO has never had to deal with before.</p> -<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t say that Google or Sun or anybody else just won a bigger share of the office software market, and if they did, it won&#8217;t help their revenue or profits directly anyway. But it&#8217;s clear as day that Microsoft just took a serious hit, and the impact may take a long time to make itself felt but it will come.</p> -<p>&#8220;The company&#8217;s biggest revenue generator may be a shadow of its former self in a few years. I just hope that Microsoft has some alternative business prospects on tap &#8212; and no, tackling Google&#8217;s search hulk head-on doesn&#8217;t count.&#8221;</p> -<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Office is going to lose marketshare, and Motley Fool sees this as having a big impact on Microsoft&#8217;s core profitability.</p> -<p>From the perspective of open source users, it means Microsoft will have less money to spend on attacking us, which is a good thing.</p> -<p>From the perspective of all computer users, especially small businesses, it means costs will decline as the $400 price for Microsoft Office is no longer a required expense&#8211;using the free OpenOffice.org instead will be an easy alternative.</p> -<p>With <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html">OpenOffice 3.0 coming this fall</a>, it&#8217;s time to expect another big jump in its user share. Let&#8217;s watch!</p></content> - <author> - <name>Benjamin Horst</name> - <uri>http://www.solidoffice.com</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org</title> - <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> - <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-06-10T18:00:16+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.552&r2=1.553 Delta lines: +27 -23 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-06-10 17:59:51+0000 1.552 +++ index.html 2008-06-10 23:59:50+0000 1.553 @@ -34,10 +34,36 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: June 10, 2008 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: June 11, 2008 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> <h2>June 10, 2008</h2> <h3> +<a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com"; title="The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org"> +Alan Lord</a> : +<a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/";> +Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Do you remember that total <a title="Digistan Mission" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/05/17/digistanorg/"; target="_blank">Jerk</a> Dennis Byron? The chap who thought that Digistan was some sort of terrorist organisation? Well here’s a rather nicely ironic way to shove his ignorant and frankly stupid views in that familiar place where “the sun doesn’t shine”.</p> +<p>A fellow colleague on the blogosphere, <a title="Fanatic Attack!" href="http://www.fanaticattack.com/the-fanatics-behind-the-attack"; target="_blank">Russell Ossendryver</a>, sent me an email linking to a recent <a title="Use Open Standards" href="http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/digistan/"; target="_blank">on-line petition</a> instigated by <a title="John McCreesh of OpenOffice.org" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/06/03/british-citizens-or-residents-read-on/"; target="_blank">John McCreesh</a> (of <a title="OpenOffice.org" href="http://www.OpenOffice.org"; target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a>) on 10 Downing Street’s petition engine.</p> +<p>Basically it calls for the UK Government to:</p> +<blockquote><p>(1) Procure only information technology that implements free and open standards;</p> +<p>(2) Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open standards;</p> +<p>(3) Use only free and open digital standards in their own activities.</p> +<p>as adopted and proclaimed by the founders of the Digital Standards Organization in The Hague on 21 May 2008.</p></blockquote> +<p>That sounds like a fine idea to me! It would save the country literally hundreds of millions of pounds just for starters.</p> +<p>There are some particularly interesting names already on the list of signatories:</p> +<p>Mark Taylor (<a title="Open Source Consortium" href="http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/"; target="_blank">Open Source Consortium</a>), Chris Puttick (CIO for <a class="external text" title="http://thehumanjourney.net"; rel="nofollow" href="http://thehumanjourney.net/";>Oxford Archaeology</a>), Glyn Moody (Journalist and Open Source Commentator: <a title="Glyn Moody's Blog" href="http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com"; target="_blank">http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com</a>), and Ian Lynch (of <a title="INGOTS" href="http://theingots.org/"; target="_blank">INGOTS</a> fame).</p> +<p>I’ve signed it. If you think that Open Standards are important (and you SHOULD if you are reading this!) then what are you waiting for? Click <a title="Petition for Open Standards in Government" href="http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/digistan/"; target="_blank">here</a> and register your opinion.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to digg" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Technorati" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png"; title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/";>by Alan Lord at June 10, 2008 09:53 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/"; title="Erwin's StarOffice Tango"> Erwin Tenhumberg</a> : <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/who_speaks_slovak_and_can";> @@ -375,28 +401,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>May 29, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> -Benjamin Horst</a> : -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/810";> -Motley Fool: âThe Fall of Microsoft Officeâ</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Lots of open source and open standards tech people, including me, have long anticipated this, but now a mainstream financial site, Motley Fool, is predicting “<a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/05/27/the-fall-of-microsoft-office.aspx";>The Fall of Microsoft Office</a>.”</p> -<p>Microsoft has publicly announced it will support <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/";>ODF</a> in its Office suite. If implemented honestly (a big question for Microsoft), this throws open the doors to competition in a way MSO has never had to deal with before.</p> -<p>“I can’t say that Google or Sun or anybody else just won a bigger share of the office software market, and if they did, it won’t help their revenue or profits directly anyway. But it’s clear as day that Microsoft just took a serious hit, and the impact may take a long time to make itself felt but it will come.</p> -<p>“The company’s biggest revenue generator may be a shadow of its former self in a few years. I just hope that Microsoft has some alternative business prospects on tap — and no, tackling Google’s search hulk head-on doesn’t count.”</p> -<p>Microsoft’s Office is going to lose marketshare, and Motley Fool sees this as having a big impact on Microsoft’s core profitability.</p> -<p>From the perspective of open source users, it means Microsoft will have less money to spend on attacking us, which is a good thing.</p> -<p>From the perspective of all computer users, especially small businesses, it means costs will decline as the $400 price for Microsoft Office is no longer a required expense–using the free OpenOffice.org instead will be an easy alternative.</p> -<p>With <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html";>OpenOffice 3.0 coming this fall</a>, it’s time to expect another big jump in its user share. Let’s watch!</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/810";>by Benjamin Horst at May 29, 2008 08:31 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.552&r2=1.553 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-06-10 17:59:51+0000 1.552 +++ opml.xml 2008-06-10 23:59:50+0000 1.553 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:00:22 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:22 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.301&r2=1.302 Delta lines: +19 -14 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-06-10 17:59:51+0000 1.301 +++ rss10.xml 2008-06-10 23:59:50+0000 1.302 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=269"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/who_speaks_slovak_and_can"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-4193864903664578342" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7264059486425911419" /> @@ -32,11 +33,28 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/french_hospital_migrates_to_openoffice"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=812"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=509"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=810"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=269";> + <title>Alan Lord: Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards</title> + <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/</link> + <content:encoded><p>Do you remember that total <a title="Digistan Mission" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/05/17/digistanorg/" target="_blank">Jerk</a> Dennis Byron? The chap who thought that Digistan was some sort of terrorist organisation? Well here&#8217;s a rather nicely ironic way to shove his ignorant and frankly stupid views in that familiar place where &#8220;the sun doesn&#8217;t shine&#8221;.</p> +<p>A fellow colleague on the blogosphere, <a title="Fanatic Attack!" href="http://www.fanaticattack.com/the-fanatics-behind-the-attack" target="_blank">Russell Ossendryver</a>, sent me an email linking to a recent <a title="Use Open Standards" href="http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/digistan/" target="_blank">on-line petition</a> instigated by <a title="John McCreesh of OpenOffice.org" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/06/03/british-citizens-or-residents-read-on/" target="_blank">John McCreesh</a> (of <a title="OpenOffice.org" href="http://www.OpenOffice.org" target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a>) on 10 Downing Street&#8217;s petition engine.</p> +<p>Basically it calls for the UK Government to:</p> +<blockquote><p>(1) Procure only information technology that implements free and open standards;</p> +<p>(2) Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open standards;</p> +<p>(3) Use only free and open digital standards in their own activities.</p> +<p>as adopted and proclaimed by the founders of the Digital Standards Organization in The Hague on 21 May 2008.</p></blockquote> +<p>That sounds like a fine idea to me! It would save the country literally hundreds of millions of pounds just for starters.</p> +<p>There are some particularly interesting names already on the list of signatories:</p> +<p>Mark Taylor (<a title="Open Source Consortium" href="http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/" target="_blank">Open Source Consortium</a>), Chris Puttick (CIO for <a class="external text" title="http://thehumanjourney.net" rel="nofollow" href="http://thehumanjourney.net/">Oxford Archaeology</a>), Glyn Moody (Journalist and Open Source Commentator: <a title="Glyn Moody's Blog" href="http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com</a>), and Ian Lynch (of <a title="INGOTS" href="http://theingots.org/" target="_blank">INGOTS</a> fame).</p> +<p>I&#8217;ve signed it. If you think that Open Standards are important (and you SHOULD if you are reading this!) then what are you waiting for? Click <a title="Petition for Open Standards in Government" href="http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/digistan/" target="_blank">here</a> and register your opinion.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to digg" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Technorati" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-06-10T21:53:50+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/who_speaks_slovak_and_can";> <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Who speaks Slovak and can translate this ODF related article???</title> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/who_speaks_slovak_and_can</link> @@ -223,18 +241,5 @@ <p>The UK isn&#8217;t exactly a hot bed of open source adoption, so I was pleased to find these references to point people to when they start asking questions as a result of the article in <em>Perspectives</em>.</p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-05-31T09:22:44+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=810";> - <title>Benjamin Horst: Motley Fool: âThe Fall of Microsoft Officeâ</title> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/810</link> - <content:encoded><p>Lots of open source and open standards tech people, including me, have long anticipated this, but now a mainstream financial site, Motley Fool, is predicting &#8220;<a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/05/27/the-fall-of-microsoft-office.aspx">The Fall of Microsoft Office</a>.&#8221;</p> -<p>Microsoft has publicly announced it will support <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/">ODF</a> in its Office suite. If implemented honestly (a big question for Microsoft), this throws open the doors to competition in a way MSO has never had to deal with before.</p> -<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t say that Google or Sun or anybody else just won a bigger share of the office software market, and if they did, it won&#8217;t help their revenue or profits directly anyway. But it&#8217;s clear as day that Microsoft just took a serious hit, and the impact may take a long time to make itself felt but it will come.</p> -<p>&#8220;The company&#8217;s biggest revenue generator may be a shadow of its former self in a few years. I just hope that Microsoft has some alternative business prospects on tap &#8212; and no, tackling Google&#8217;s search hulk head-on doesn&#8217;t count.&#8221;</p> -<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Office is going to lose marketshare, and Motley Fool sees this as having a big impact on Microsoft&#8217;s core profitability.</p> -<p>From the perspective of open source users, it means Microsoft will have less money to spend on attacking us, which is a good thing.</p> -<p>From the perspective of all computer users, especially small businesses, it means costs will decline as the $400 price for Microsoft Office is no longer a required expense&#8211;using the free OpenOffice.org instead will be an easy alternative.</p> -<p>With <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html">OpenOffice 3.0 coming this fall</a>, it&#8217;s time to expect another big jump in its user share. Let&#8217;s watch!</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-05-29T20:31:04+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.301&r2=1.302 Delta lines: +19 -14 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-06-10 17:59:51+0000 1.301 +++ rss20.xml 2008-06-10 23:59:50+0000 1.302 @@ -8,6 +8,25 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Alan Lord: Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards</title> + <guid>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=269</guid> + <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/</link> + <description><p>Do you remember that total <a title="Digistan Mission" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/05/17/digistanorg/" target="_blank">Jerk</a> Dennis Byron? The chap who thought that Digistan was some sort of terrorist organisation? Well here&#8217;s a rather nicely ironic way to shove his ignorant and frankly stupid views in that familiar place where &#8220;the sun doesn&#8217;t shine&#8221;.</p> +<p>A fellow colleague on the blogosphere, <a title="Fanatic Attack!" href="http://www.fanaticattack.com/the-fanatics-behind-the-attack" target="_blank">Russell Ossendryver</a>, sent me an email linking to a recent <a title="Use Open Standards" href="http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/digistan/" target="_blank">on-line petition</a> instigated by <a title="John McCreesh of OpenOffice.org" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/06/03/british-citizens-or-residents-read-on/" target="_blank">John McCreesh</a> (of <a title="OpenOffice.org" href="http://www.OpenOffice.org" target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a>) on 10 Downing Street&#8217;s petition engine.</p> +<p>Basically it calls for the UK Government to:</p> +<blockquote><p>(1) Procure only information technology that implements free and open standards;</p> +<p>(2) Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open standards;</p> +<p>(3) Use only free and open digital standards in their own activities.</p> +<p>as adopted and proclaimed by the founders of the Digital Standards Organization in The Hague on 21 May 2008.</p></blockquote> +<p>That sounds like a fine idea to me! It would save the country literally hundreds of millions of pounds just for starters.</p> +<p>There are some particularly interesting names already on the list of signatories:</p> +<p>Mark Taylor (<a title="Open Source Consortium" href="http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/" target="_blank">Open Source Consortium</a>), Chris Puttick (CIO for <a class="external text" title="http://thehumanjourney.net" rel="nofollow" href="http://thehumanjourney.net/">Oxford Archaeology</a>), Glyn Moody (Journalist and Open Source Commentator: <a title="Glyn Moody's Blog" href="http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com</a>), and Ian Lynch (of <a title="INGOTS" href="http://theingots.org/" target="_blank">INGOTS</a> fame).</p> +<p>I&#8217;ve signed it. If you think that Open Standards are important (and you SHOULD if you are reading this!) then what are you waiting for? Click <a title="Petition for Open Standards in Government" href="http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/digistan/" target="_blank">here</a> and register your opinion.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to digg" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Technorati" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/&title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=Encourage+UK+PLC+to+use+Open+Standards&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/06/10/encourage-uk-plc-to-use-open-standards/" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'Encourage UK PLC to use Open Standards' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:53:50 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Who speaks Slovak and can translate this ODF related article???</title> <guid>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/who_speaks_slovak_and_can</guid> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/who_speaks_slovak_and_can</link> @@ -210,20 +229,6 @@ <p>The UK isn&#8217;t exactly a hot bed of open source adoption, so I was pleased to find these references to point people to when they start asking questions as a result of the article in <em>Perspectives</em>.</p></description> <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 09:22:44 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Benjamin Horst: Motley Fool: âThe Fall of Microsoft Officeâ</title> - <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=810</guid> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/810</link> - <description><p>Lots of open source and open standards tech people, including me, have long anticipated this, but now a mainstream financial site, Motley Fool, is predicting &#8220;<a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/05/27/the-fall-of-microsoft-office.aspx">The Fall of Microsoft Office</a>.&#8221;</p> -<p>Microsoft has publicly announced it will support <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/">ODF</a> in its Office suite. If implemented honestly (a big question for Microsoft), this throws open the doors to competition in a way MSO has never had to deal with before.</p> -<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t say that Google or Sun or anybody else just won a bigger share of the office software market, and if they did, it won&#8217;t help their revenue or profits directly anyway. But it&#8217;s clear as day that Microsoft just took a serious hit, and the impact may take a long time to make itself felt but it will come.</p> -<p>&#8220;The company&#8217;s biggest revenue generator may be a shadow of its former self in a few years. I just hope that Microsoft has some alternative business prospects on tap &#8212; and no, tackling Google&#8217;s search hulk head-on doesn&#8217;t count.&#8221;</p> -<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Office is going to lose marketshare, and Motley Fool sees this as having a big impact on Microsoft&#8217;s core profitability.</p> -<p>From the perspective of open source users, it means Microsoft will have less money to spend on attacking us, which is a good thing.</p> -<p>From the perspective of all computer users, especially small businesses, it means costs will decline as the $400 price for Microsoft Office is no longer a required expense&#8211;using the free OpenOffice.org instead will be an easy alternative.</p> -<p>With <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html">OpenOffice 3.0 coming this fall</a>, it&#8217;s time to expect another big jump in its user share. 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