User: jpmcc   
Date: 2008-06-13 17:59:57+0000
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        <entry xml:lang="en">
+               <title type="html">Neelie Kroes on Open Standards</title>
+               <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/821"/>
+               <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=821</id>
+               <updated>2008-06-13T14:54:01+00:00</updated>
+               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelie_Kroes&quot;&gt;Neelie 
Kroes&lt;/a&gt; is an EU bureaucrat well-known to the open source and tech 
communities, because she is the relentless force bringing Microsoft&amp;#8217;s 
monopolistic abuses to justice:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Ms. Kroes has fought bitterly with Microsoft over the last 
four years, accusing the company of defying her orders and fining it nearly 1.7 
billion euros, or $2.7 billion, on the grounds of violating European 
competition rules.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/technology/11soft.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/C/Computers%20and%20the%20Internet&amp;oref=slogin&quot;&gt;New
 York Times reports on Kroes&amp;#8217; recent suggestion that businesses and 
governments use open standards&lt;/a&gt; and avoid being tied to a single 
software supplier:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Her comments were the strongest recommendation yet by Ms. 
Kroes to jettison Microsoft products, which are based on proprietary standards, 
and to use rival operating systems to run computers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;I know a smart business decision when I see one — 
choosing open standards is a very smart business decision indeed,” Ms. Kroes 
told a conference in Brussels. &amp;#8220;No citizen or company should be 
forced or encouraged to choose a closed technology over an open 
one.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;She also encouraged the Netherlands (her home country) to continue 
moving toward open standards, and praised government agencies in Germany and 
France that have already done so (by migrating to Linux and/or 
OpenOffice.org).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The EU is fast escaping Microsoft&amp;#8217;s orbit, and they may 
leapfrog the USA in this round of global techno-competition. Their large-scale 
adoption of open source will strengthen many software projects, and that will 
benefit software users around the world.&lt;/p&gt;</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>2008-06-13T18:00:17+00:00</updated>
+               </source>
+       </entry>
+
+       <entry xml:lang="en">
                <title type="html">OpenOffice PDF Import Extension</title>
                <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/820"/>
                <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=820</id>
@@ -27,7 +52,7 @@
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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>2008-06-12T12:00:16+00:00</updated>
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                        <subtitle type="html">Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into 
Open Source and Dancing&lt;br /&gt;... or why Open Competition 
matters</subtitle>
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href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/>
                        <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id>
-                       <updated>2008-06-13T00:00:21+00:00</updated>
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                        <subtitle type="html">Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into 
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matters</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/>
                        <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id>
-                       <updated>2008-06-13T00:00:21+00:00</updated>
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<id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id>
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matters</subtitle>
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href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/>
                        <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id>
-                       <updated>2008-06-13T00:00:21+00:00</updated>
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@@ -193,7 +218,7 @@
                        <subtitle type="html">Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into 
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matters</subtitle>
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href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/>
                        <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id>
-                       <updated>2008-06-13T00:00:21+00:00</updated>
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                        <subtitle type="html">Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into 
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matters</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/>
                        <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id>
-                       <updated>2008-06-13T00:00:21+00:00</updated>
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                        <rights type="html">Copyright 2008</rights>
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@@ -331,7 +356,7 @@
                        <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>2008-06-12T12:00:16+00:00</updated>
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<id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id>
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<id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id>
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-       <entry xml:lang="en">
-               <title type="html">Eee Could Sell 10 Million Units Next 
Year</title>
-               <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/815"/>
-               <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=815</id>
-               <updated>2008-06-05T18:22:14+00:00</updated>
-               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Asustek, creator of the 
innovative and highly-popular ultra mobile Linux-based &amp;#8220;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC&quot;&gt;Eee 
PC&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;#8221; expects to double its sales next year (2009) to &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSTP15771220080602&quot;&gt;10
 million units&lt;/a&gt;. (Some models now use Windows XP instead of Linux, 
unfortunately.)&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;The Linux versions all include OpenOffice, which means millions of 
copies being distributed to new users around the world.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;The new market it has defined, &amp;#8220;ultra mobile PCs&amp;#8221; 
is also set to explode: &amp;#8220;The company, which had previously estimated 
that it would sell 5 million Eee PCs this year, forecasts low-cost PC sales are 
set to hit 20-30 million units globally in 2009, Asustek&amp;#8217;s Chief 
Executive Jerry Shen told reporters.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Many other companies have introduced Eee competitors, collecting 
marketshare on the margins, but the good news is that most of them also offer 
Linux as the default (or at least an optional) OS.&lt;/p&gt;</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>2008-06-12T12:00:16+00:00</updated>
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--- index.html  2008-06-13 11:59:47+0000        1.563
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 <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 13, 2008 12:00 PM 
GMT</em></p>
+<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: June 13, 2008 06:00 PM 
GMT</em></p>
 
+<h2>June 13, 2008</h2>
+<h3>
+<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org">
+Benjamin Horst</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
+<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/821";>
+Neelie Kroes on Open Standards</a>
+</h3>
+<p>
+<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelie_Kroes";>Neelie Kroes</a> is an 
EU bureaucrat well-known to the open source and tech communities, because she 
is the relentless force bringing Microsoft&#8217;s monopolistic abuses to 
justice:</p>
+<p>&#8220;Ms. Kroes has fought bitterly with Microsoft over the last four 
years, accusing the company of defying her orders and fining it nearly 1.7 
billion euros, or $2.7 billion, on the grounds of violating European 
competition rules.&#8221;</p>
+<p>The <a 
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/technology/11soft.html?_r=1&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/C/Computers%20and%20the%20Internet&oref=slogin";>New
 York Times reports on Kroes&#8217; recent suggestion that businesses and 
governments use open standards</a> and avoid being tied to a single software 
supplier:</p>
+<p>&#8220;Her comments were the strongest recommendation yet by Ms. Kroes to 
jettison Microsoft products, which are based on proprietary standards, and to 
use rival operating systems to run computers.</p>
+<p>&#8220;I know a smart business decision when I see one — choosing open 
standards is a very smart business decision indeed,” Ms. Kroes told a 
conference in Brussels. &#8220;No citizen or company should be forced or 
encouraged to choose a closed technology over an open one.&#8221;</p>
+<p>She also encouraged the Netherlands (her home country) to continue moving 
toward open standards, and praised government agencies in Germany and France 
that have already done so (by migrating to Linux and/or OpenOffice.org).</p>
+<p>The EU is fast escaping Microsoft&#8217;s orbit, and they may leapfrog the 
USA in this round of global techno-competition. Their large-scale adoption of 
open source will strengthen many software projects, and that will benefit 
software users around the world.</p></p>
+<p>
+<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/821";>by Benjamin Horst at 
June 13, 2008 02:54 PM GMT</a></em>
+</p>
+<br />
+<hr />
+<br />
 <h2>June 12, 2008</h2>
 <h3>
 <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org">
@@ -390,23 +411,6 @@
 <br />
 <hr />
 <br />
-<h3>
-<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org">
-Benjamin Horst</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
-<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/815";>
-Eee Could Sell 10 Million Units Next Year</a>
-</h3>
-<p>
-<p>Asustek, creator of the innovative and highly-popular ultra mobile 
Linux-based &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC";>Eee 
PC</a>,&#8221; expects to double its sales next year (2009) to <a 
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSTP15771220080602";>10 
million units</a>. (Some models now use Windows XP instead of Linux, 
unfortunately.)</p>
-<p>The Linux versions all include OpenOffice, which means millions of copies 
being distributed to new users around the world.</p>
-<p>The new market it has defined, &#8220;ultra mobile PCs&#8221; is also set 
to explode: &#8220;The company, which had previously estimated that it would 
sell 5 million Eee PCs this year, forecasts low-cost PC sales are set to hit 
20-30 million units globally in 2009, Asustek&#8217;s Chief Executive Jerry 
Shen told reporters.&#8221;</p>
-<p>Many other companies have introduced Eee competitors, collecting 
marketshare on the margins, but the good news is that most of them also offer 
Linux as the default (or at least an optional) OS.</p></p>
-<p>
-<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/815";>by Benjamin Horst at 
June 05, 2008 06:22 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 

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-               <dateModified>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:00:21 +0000</dateModified>
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+<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=821";>
+       <title>Benjamin Horst: Neelie Kroes on Open Standards</title>
+       <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/821</link>
+       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelie_Kroes&quot;&gt;Neelie 
Kroes&lt;/a&gt; is an EU bureaucrat well-known to the open source and tech 
communities, because she is the relentless force bringing Microsoft&amp;#8217;s 
monopolistic abuses to justice:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Ms. Kroes has fought bitterly with Microsoft over the last 
four years, accusing the company of defying her orders and fining it nearly 1.7 
billion euros, or $2.7 billion, on the grounds of violating European 
competition rules.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/technology/11soft.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/C/Computers%20and%20the%20Internet&amp;oref=slogin&quot;&gt;New
 York Times reports on Kroes&amp;#8217; recent suggestion that businesses and 
governments use open standards&lt;/a&gt; and avoid being tied to a single 
software supplier:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Her comments were the strongest recommendation yet by Ms. 
Kroes to jettison Microsoft products, which are based on proprietary standards, 
and to use rival operating systems to run computers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;I know a smart business decision when I see one — 
choosing open standards is a very smart business decision indeed,” Ms. Kroes 
told a conference in Brussels. &amp;#8220;No citizen or company should be 
forced or encouraged to choose a closed technology over an open 
one.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;She also encouraged the Netherlands (her home country) to continue 
moving toward open standards, and praised government agencies in Germany and 
France that have already done so (by migrating to Linux and/or 
OpenOffice.org).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The EU is fast escaping Microsoft&amp;#8217;s orbit, and they may 
leapfrog the USA in this round of global techno-competition. Their large-scale 
adoption of open source will strengthen many software projects, and that will 
benefit software users around the world.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
+       <dc:date>2008-06-13T14:54:01+00:00</dc:date>
+</item>
 <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=820";>
        <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice PDF Import Extension</title>
        <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/820</link>
@@ -242,14 +254,5 @@
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-       <title>Benjamin Horst: Eee Could Sell 10 Million Units Next Year</title>
-       <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/815</link>
-       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Asustek, creator of the innovative and 
highly-popular ultra mobile Linux-based &amp;#8220;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC&quot;&gt;Eee 
PC&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;#8221; expects to double its sales next year (2009) to &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSTP15771220080602&quot;&gt;10
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unfortunately.)&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;The Linux versions all include OpenOffice, which means millions of 
copies being distributed to new users around the world.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;The new market it has defined, &amp;#8220;ultra mobile PCs&amp;#8221; 
is also set to explode: &amp;#8220;The company, which had previously estimated 
that it would sell 5 million Eee PCs this year, forecasts low-cost PC sales are 
set to hit 20-30 million units globally in 2009, Asustek&amp;#8217;s Chief 
Executive Jerry Shen told reporters.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Many other companies have introduced Eee competitors, collecting 
marketshare on the margins, but the good news is that most of them also offer 
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+       <title>Benjamin Horst: Neelie Kroes on Open Standards</title>
+       <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=821</guid>
+       <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/821</link>
+       <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelie_Kroes&quot;&gt;Neelie 
Kroes&lt;/a&gt; is an EU bureaucrat well-known to the open source and tech 
communities, because she is the relentless force bringing Microsoft&amp;#8217;s 
monopolistic abuses to justice:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Ms. Kroes has fought bitterly with Microsoft over the last 
four years, accusing the company of defying her orders and fining it nearly 1.7 
billion euros, or $2.7 billion, on the grounds of violating European 
competition rules.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/technology/11soft.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/C/Computers%20and%20the%20Internet&amp;oref=slogin&quot;&gt;New
 York Times reports on Kroes&amp;#8217; recent suggestion that businesses and 
governments use open standards&lt;/a&gt; and avoid being tied to a single 
software supplier:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Her comments were the strongest recommendation yet by Ms. 
Kroes to jettison Microsoft products, which are based on proprietary standards, 
and to use rival operating systems to run computers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;I know a smart business decision when I see one — 
choosing open standards is a very smart business decision indeed,” Ms. Kroes 
told a conference in Brussels. &amp;#8220;No citizen or company should be 
forced or encouraged to choose a closed technology over an open 
one.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;She also encouraged the Netherlands (her home country) to continue 
moving toward open standards, and praised government agencies in Germany and 
France that have already done so (by migrating to Linux and/or 
OpenOffice.org).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The EU is fast escaping Microsoft&amp;#8217;s orbit, and they may 
leapfrog the USA in this round of global techno-competition. Their large-scale 
adoption of open source will strengthen many software projects, and that will 
benefit software users around the world.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
+       <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
+</item>
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        <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice PDF Import Extension</title>
        <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=820</guid>
        <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/820</link>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
        <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leif Lodahl)</author>
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-       <title>Benjamin Horst: Eee Could Sell 10 Million Units Next Year</title>
-       <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=815</guid>
-       <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/815</link>
-       <description>&lt;p&gt;Asustek, creator of the innovative and 
highly-popular ultra mobile Linux-based &amp;#8220;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC&quot;&gt;Eee 
PC&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;#8221; expects to double its sales next year (2009) to &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSTP15771220080602&quot;&gt;10
 million units&lt;/a&gt;. (Some models now use Windows XP instead of Linux, 
unfortunately.)&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;The Linux versions all include OpenOffice, which means millions of 
copies being distributed to new users around the world.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;The new market it has defined, &amp;#8220;ultra mobile PCs&amp;#8221; 
is also set to explode: &amp;#8220;The company, which had previously estimated 
that it would sell 5 million Eee PCs this year, forecasts low-cost PC sales are 
set to hit 20-30 million units globally in 2009, Asustek&amp;#8217;s Chief 
Executive Jerry Shen told reporters.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Many other companies have introduced Eee competitors, collecting 
marketshare on the margins, but the good news is that most of them also offer 
Linux as the default (or at least an optional) OS.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
-       <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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