User: jpmcc Date: 2008-08-14 23:58:43+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Fri Aug 15 01:00:13 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=1.803&r2=1.804 Delta lines: +28 -36 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-08-14 17:58:40+0000 1.803 +++ atom.xml 2008-08-14 23:58:40+0000 1.804 @@ -5,10 +5,31 @@ <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>2008-08-14T18:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-08-15T00:00:24+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Building Communities</title> + <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/08/14/building-communities/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=529</id> + <updated>2008-08-14T20:21:25+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>One of the pleasures of attending the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference">OpenOffice.org Annual Conference</a> is catching up with old friends. I always make a point of having a chat with <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/121/143">Zaheda</a>, one of the founders of the OpenOffice.org community, now with Google, but still keeping a keen interest in OpenOffice.org.</p> +<p>Zaheda is doing a Conference session <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme/wednesday.html">The OOo Global Community</a> which should be a &#8216;must see&#8217; - <em>note to community members - expect to be asked for your stories over the next few weeks! </em>Conference attendees love to celebrate the new achievements of the OpenOffice.org software - let&#8217;s also celebrate the people who make it happen.</p> +<p>On a related topic, Phil Whitehouse has an interesting piece on <a href="https://fossbazaar.org/?q=content/building-open-source-community">building communities</a>. There&#8217;s a growing feeling in OpenOffice.org that some of the structures could do with a good spring clean, starting with <a href="http://council.openoffice.org/">the Community Council</a>. Maybe we need to spend some time on this in the bars in Beijing <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p></content> + <author> + <name>John McCreesh</name> + <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2008-08-15T00:00:14+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Malaysian State of Pahang Adopts OpenOffice.org</title> <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/854"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=854</id> @@ -107,7 +128,7 @@ <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>2008-08-14T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-08-15T00:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -151,7 +172,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-08-11T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-08-15T00:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -209,7 +230,7 @@ <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>2008-08-14T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-08-15T00:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -344,7 +365,7 @@ <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>2008-08-14T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-08-15T00:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -403,7 +424,7 @@ <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>2008-08-14T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-08-15T00:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -452,7 +473,7 @@ <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>2008-08-14T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-08-15T00:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -496,33 +517,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Microsoftâs road to Canossa</title> - <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/</id> - <updated>2008-07-28T14:51:28+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Who would have believed it a few months ago? Who could tell Microsoft would âclarifyâ the coverage of its OSP and extend it to cover the GPL and FOSS developers as well as users? Clearly, pigs might actually fly, <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080725152355696">and Groklaw does think the same way</a>.</p> -<p>As it was not enough, Microsoft also became an arch-sponsor of the Apache Foundation and paying a decent sum of money as sponsorship fees. IIS anyone? And wait, good news never come along. According to the guidelines of the OASIS Consortium, a member of any Technical Committee that is registered for more than 60 days in this committee automatically neutralizes its own IPR and cannot litigate against any member of the said committee, nor against any implementor, nor user of the standard at hand. In that case, that would be ODF. OOXML anyone?</p> -<p>Of course, there are drawbacks; the OSP still has many flaws, one of them being that it only covers the present version of the spec, and that nobody knows exactly what it refers to (Ecma 376?MS Office 2007 OOXML? The grand paraphernalia otherwise known as ISO/DIS 29500?). Another one is that it âonlyâ allows you to implement the spec, and does not cover you if you modify it. Also, the OSP does not and will not change the flawed standardization processes that have led to the creation of an ISO standard called OOXML. In fact, many things are left as they are, and yet, it feels like so many other things have changed in less than a week.</p> -<p>Perhaps what is changing the IT industry is also changing Microsoft? Perhaps the inroads of OpenOffice.org, crowned and adorned several times this year (heck, that&#8217;s the year of the 3.0!), the ineluctable long march of Mozilla Firefox, the long agony of the â.docâ that has started with ODF and is only beginning to show thanks to many governments worldwide and more recently, the NATO, perhaps all this, and all the shame and negativity are starting to come back to Microsoft. Am I naive? No. On the long run, Redmond has no other choice to open up or die.</p> -<p>This is where we stand, at the edge of the foam, as the tidal waves of change are soaking up the sands of idleness. Of course, it&#8217;s a tidal movement, so the sands fight it off and the waves do sometimes recede. When they do, they usually leave a clear and white track of foam behind them. This is where the industry finds itself, not knowing if it should go back to the illusory safety of the shore or if it should rather take on the ocean, blissfully feeling the call of the horizon and the sweet bites of the fresh water flowing all around it, then going away to better come back.</p> -<p>Oh, there is to be sure much left to do for Microsoft to embrace the competition and change. I have heard today that many out there are still locked into the proprietary platforms trap. An example of this is what&#8217;s happening right now at <a href="http://www.boc.cn/cn/static/index.html">the Bank of China</a>. This bank recently upgraded its systems to what appears to be an all Microsoft environment. As a result, its customers are only able to perform their banking operations through the good old Internet Explorer. Wake up, folks. We&#8217;re in 2008 and such things should have stopped a long time ago. But I don&#8217;t see the lock-in effect being lift up by Microsoft any time soon.</p> -<p>So I was thinking that perhaps the good way to end up this post was to point to the excellent <a href="http://opensource.org/node/352">Michael Tiemann&#8217;s blog</a>. I think Michael has devised some excellent proposals to Microsoft, and I could only wish for the same goals Michael is prescribing. Until then, I feel I should as a gracious gesture apologizing for my latest post about the OSP and the RAND license terms. What I wrote was absolutely true at that time, but I shall now leave it to Microsoft the duty to correct the impressions Ben Henrion and anyone who asked for the license terms for OOXML got when they received the answer from Redmond&#8217;s legal department.</p> -<p>The road to Canossa has just started&#8230;</p> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=85&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_85" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></content> - <author> - <name>Charles Schulz</name> - <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings</title> - <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2008-08-14T12:00:17+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.803&r2=1.804 Delta lines: +17 -25 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-08-14 17:58:40+0000 1.803 +++ index.html 2008-08-14 23:58:40+0000 1.804 @@ -34,10 +34,26 @@ <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: August 14, 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: August 15, 2008 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> <h2>August 14, 2008</h2> <h3> +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> +John McCreesh</a> : +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/08/14/building-communities/";> +Building Communities</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>One of the pleasures of attending the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference";>OpenOffice.org Annual Conference</a> is catching up with old friends. I always make a point of having a chat with <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/121/143";>Zaheda</a>, one of the founders of the OpenOffice.org community, now with Google, but still keeping a keen interest in OpenOffice.org.</p> +<p>Zaheda is doing a Conference session <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme/wednesday.html";>The OOo Global Community</a> which should be a ‘must see’ - <em>note to community members - expect to be asked for your stories over the next few weeks! </em>Conference attendees love to celebrate the new achievements of the OpenOffice.org software - let’s also celebrate the people who make it happen.</p> +<p>On a related topic, Phil Whitehouse has an interesting piece on <a href="https://fossbazaar.org/?q=content/building-open-source-community";>building communities</a>. There’s a growing feeling in OpenOffice.org that some of the structures could do with a good spring clean, starting with <a href="http://council.openoffice.org/";>the Community Council</a>. Maybe we need to spend some time on this in the bars in Beijing <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif"; alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/08/14/building-communities/";>by John at August 14, 2008 08:21 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> Benjamin Horst</a> : <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/854";> @@ -448,30 +464,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> -Charles Schulz</a> : -<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/";> -Microsoftâs road to Canossa</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Who would have believed it a few months ago? Who could tell Microsoft would âclarifyâ the coverage of its OSP and extend it to cover the GPL and FOSS developers as well as users? Clearly, pigs might actually fly, <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080725152355696";>and Groklaw does think the same way</a>.</p> -<p>As it was not enough, Microsoft also became an arch-sponsor of the Apache Foundation and paying a decent sum of money as sponsorship fees. IIS anyone? And wait, good news never come along. According to the guidelines of the OASIS Consortium, a member of any Technical Committee that is registered for more than 60 days in this committee automatically neutralizes its own IPR and cannot litigate against any member of the said committee, nor against any implementor, nor user of the standard at hand. In that case, that would be ODF. OOXML anyone?</p> -<p>Of course, there are drawbacks; the OSP still has many flaws, one of them being that it only covers the present version of the spec, and that nobody knows exactly what it refers to (Ecma 376?MS Office 2007 OOXML? The grand paraphernalia otherwise known as ISO/DIS 29500?). Another one is that it âonlyâ allows you to implement the spec, and does not cover you if you modify it. Also, the OSP does not and will not change the flawed standardization processes that have led to the creation of an ISO standard called OOXML. In fact, many things are left as they are, and yet, it feels like so many other things have changed in less than a week.</p> -<p>Perhaps what is changing the IT industry is also changing Microsoft? Perhaps the inroads of OpenOffice.org, crowned and adorned several times this year (heck, that’s the year of the 3.0!), the ineluctable long march of Mozilla Firefox, the long agony of the â.docâ that has started with ODF and is only beginning to show thanks to many governments worldwide and more recently, the NATO, perhaps all this, and all the shame and negativity are starting to come back to Microsoft. Am I naive? No. On the long run, Redmond has no other choice to open up or die.</p> -<p>This is where we stand, at the edge of the foam, as the tidal waves of change are soaking up the sands of idleness. Of course, it’s a tidal movement, so the sands fight it off and the waves do sometimes recede. When they do, they usually leave a clear and white track of foam behind them. This is where the industry finds itself, not knowing if it should go back to the illusory safety of the shore or if it should rather take on the ocean, blissfully feeling the call of the horizon and the sweet bites of the fresh water flowing all around it, then going away to better come back.</p> -<p>Oh, there is to be sure much left to do for Microsoft to embrace the competition and change. I have heard today that many out there are still locked into the proprietary platforms trap. An example of this is what’s happening right now at <a href="http://www.boc.cn/cn/static/index.html";>the Bank of China</a>. This bank recently upgraded its systems to what appears to be an all Microsoft environment. As a result, its customers are only able to perform their banking operations through the good old Internet Explorer. Wake up, folks. We’re in 2008 and such things should have stopped a long time ago. But I don’t see the lock-in effect being lift up by Microsoft any time soon.</p> -<p>So I was thinking that perhaps the good way to end up this post was to point to the excellent <a href="http://opensource.org/node/352";>Michael Tiemann’s blog</a>. I think Michael has devised some excellent proposals to Microsoft, and I could only wish for the same goals Michael is prescribing. Until then, I feel I should as a gracious gesture apologizing for my latest post about the OSP and the RAND license terms. What I wrote was absolutely true at that time, but I shall now leave it to Microsoft the duty to correct the impressions Ben Henrion and anyone who asked for the license terms for OOXML got when they received the answer from Redmond’s legal department.</p> -<p>The road to Canossa has just started…</p> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=85&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_85" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/";>by Charles at July 28, 2008 02:51 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=1.803&r2=1.804 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-08-14 17:58:40+0000 1.803 +++ opml.xml 2008-08-14 23:58:40+0000 1.804 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:00:23 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:24 +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=1.396&r2=1.397 Delta lines: +9 -17 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-08-14 17:58:40+0000 1.396 +++ rss10.xml 2008-08-14 23:58:40+0000 1.397 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=529"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=854"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-1438918177333451683" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=305"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,18 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/969dabfa58cd231e" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-855913218784007257" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-5208393026365491542" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=529";> + <title>John McCreesh: Building Communities</title> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/08/14/building-communities/</link> + <content:encoded><p>One of the pleasures of attending the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference">OpenOffice.org Annual Conference</a> is catching up with old friends. I always make a point of having a chat with <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/121/143">Zaheda</a>, one of the founders of the OpenOffice.org community, now with Google, but still keeping a keen interest in OpenOffice.org.</p> +<p>Zaheda is doing a Conference session <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme/wednesday.html">The OOo Global Community</a> which should be a &#8216;must see&#8217; - <em>note to community members - expect to be asked for your stories over the next few weeks! </em>Conference attendees love to celebrate the new achievements of the OpenOffice.org software - let&#8217;s also celebrate the people who make it happen.</p> +<p>On a related topic, Phil Whitehouse has an interesting piece on <a href="https://fossbazaar.org/?q=content/building-open-source-community">building communities</a>. There&#8217;s a growing feeling in OpenOffice.org that some of the structures could do with a good spring clean, starting with <a href="http://council.openoffice.org/">the Community Council</a>. Maybe we need to spend some time on this in the bars in Beijing <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-08-14T20:21:25+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=854";> <title>Benjamin Horst: Malaysian State of Pahang Adopts OpenOffice.org</title> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/854</link> @@ -294,21 +302,5 @@ <dc:date>2008-07-28T23:24:12+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/";> - <title>Charles Schulz: Microsoftâs road to Canossa</title> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/</link> - <content:encoded><p>Who would have believed it a few months ago? Who could tell Microsoft would âclarifyâ the coverage of its OSP and extend it to cover the GPL and FOSS developers as well as users? Clearly, pigs might actually fly, <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080725152355696">and Groklaw does think the same way</a>.</p> -<p>As it was not enough, Microsoft also became an arch-sponsor of the Apache Foundation and paying a decent sum of money as sponsorship fees. IIS anyone? And wait, good news never come along. According to the guidelines of the OASIS Consortium, a member of any Technical Committee that is registered for more than 60 days in this committee automatically neutralizes its own IPR and cannot litigate against any member of the said committee, nor against any implementor, nor user of the standard at hand. In that case, that would be ODF. OOXML anyone?</p> -<p>Of course, there are drawbacks; the OSP still has many flaws, one of them being that it only covers the present version of the spec, and that nobody knows exactly what it refers to (Ecma 376?MS Office 2007 OOXML? The grand paraphernalia otherwise known as ISO/DIS 29500?). Another one is that it âonlyâ allows you to implement the spec, and does not cover you if you modify it. Also, the OSP does not and will not change the flawed standardization processes that have led to the creation of an ISO standard called OOXML. In fact, many things are left as they are, and yet, it feels like so many other things have changed in less than a week.</p> -<p>Perhaps what is changing the IT industry is also changing Microsoft? Perhaps the inroads of OpenOffice.org, crowned and adorned several times this year (heck, that&#8217;s the year of the 3.0!), the ineluctable long march of Mozilla Firefox, the long agony of the â.docâ that has started with ODF and is only beginning to show thanks to many governments worldwide and more recently, the NATO, perhaps all this, and all the shame and negativity are starting to come back to Microsoft. Am I naive? No. On the long run, Redmond has no other choice to open up or die.</p> -<p>This is where we stand, at the edge of the foam, as the tidal waves of change are soaking up the sands of idleness. Of course, it&#8217;s a tidal movement, so the sands fight it off and the waves do sometimes recede. When they do, they usually leave a clear and white track of foam behind them. This is where the industry finds itself, not knowing if it should go back to the illusory safety of the shore or if it should rather take on the ocean, blissfully feeling the call of the horizon and the sweet bites of the fresh water flowing all around it, then going away to better come back.</p> -<p>Oh, there is to be sure much left to do for Microsoft to embrace the competition and change. I have heard today that many out there are still locked into the proprietary platforms trap. An example of this is what&#8217;s happening right now at <a href="http://www.boc.cn/cn/static/index.html">the Bank of China</a>. This bank recently upgraded its systems to what appears to be an all Microsoft environment. As a result, its customers are only able to perform their banking operations through the good old Internet Explorer. Wake up, folks. We&#8217;re in 2008 and such things should have stopped a long time ago. But I don&#8217;t see the lock-in effect being lift up by Microsoft any time soon.</p> -<p>So I was thinking that perhaps the good way to end up this post was to point to the excellent <a href="http://opensource.org/node/352">Michael Tiemann&#8217;s blog</a>. I think Michael has devised some excellent proposals to Microsoft, and I could only wish for the same goals Michael is prescribing. Until then, I feel I should as a gracious gesture apologizing for my latest post about the OSP and the RAND license terms. What I wrote was absolutely true at that time, but I shall now leave it to Microsoft the duty to correct the impressions Ben Henrion and anyone who asked for the license terms for OOXML got when they received the answer from Redmond&#8217;s legal department.</p> -<p>The road to Canossa has just started&#8230;</p> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=85&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_85" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-07-28T14:51:28+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.396&r2=1.397 Delta lines: +9 -17 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-08-14 17:58:40+0000 1.396 +++ rss20.xml 2008-08-14 23:58:40+0000 1.397 @@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>John McCreesh: Building Communities</title> + <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=529</guid> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/08/14/building-communities/</link> + <description><p>One of the pleasures of attending the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference">OpenOffice.org Annual Conference</a> is catching up with old friends. I always make a point of having a chat with <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/121/143">Zaheda</a>, one of the founders of the OpenOffice.org community, now with Google, but still keeping a keen interest in OpenOffice.org.</p> +<p>Zaheda is doing a Conference session <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme/wednesday.html">The OOo Global Community</a> which should be a &#8216;must see&#8217; - <em>note to community members - expect to be asked for your stories over the next few weeks! </em>Conference attendees love to celebrate the new achievements of the OpenOffice.org software - let&#8217;s also celebrate the people who make it happen.</p> +<p>On a related topic, Phil Whitehouse has an interesting piece on <a href="https://fossbazaar.org/?q=content/building-open-source-community">building communities</a>. There&#8217;s a growing feeling in OpenOffice.org that some of the structures could do with a good spring clean, starting with <a href="http://council.openoffice.org/">the Community Council</a>. Maybe we need to spend some time on this in the bars in Beijing <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p></description> + <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:21:25 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Benjamin Horst: Malaysian State of Pahang Adopts OpenOffice.org</title> <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=854</guid> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/854</link> @@ -278,23 +287,6 @@ <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:24:12 +0000</pubDate> <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leif Lodahl)</author> </item> -<item> - <title>Charles Schulz: Microsoftâs road to Canossa</title> - <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/</guid> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/</link> - <description><p>Who would have believed it a few months ago? Who could tell Microsoft would âclarifyâ the coverage of its OSP and extend it to cover the GPL and FOSS developers as well as users? Clearly, pigs might actually fly, <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080725152355696">and Groklaw does think the same way</a>.</p> -<p>As it was not enough, Microsoft also became an arch-sponsor of the Apache Foundation and paying a decent sum of money as sponsorship fees. IIS anyone? And wait, good news never come along. According to the guidelines of the OASIS Consortium, a member of any Technical Committee that is registered for more than 60 days in this committee automatically neutralizes its own IPR and cannot litigate against any member of the said committee, nor against any implementor, nor user of the standard at hand. In that case, that would be ODF. OOXML anyone?</p> -<p>Of course, there are drawbacks; the OSP still has many flaws, one of them being that it only covers the present version of the spec, and that nobody knows exactly what it refers to (Ecma 376?MS Office 2007 OOXML? The grand paraphernalia otherwise known as ISO/DIS 29500?). Another one is that it âonlyâ allows you to implement the spec, and does not cover you if you modify it. Also, the OSP does not and will not change the flawed standardization processes that have led to the creation of an ISO standard called OOXML. In fact, many things are left as they are, and yet, it feels like so many other things have changed in less than a week.</p> -<p>Perhaps what is changing the IT industry is also changing Microsoft? Perhaps the inroads of OpenOffice.org, crowned and adorned several times this year (heck, that&#8217;s the year of the 3.0!), the ineluctable long march of Mozilla Firefox, the long agony of the â.docâ that has started with ODF and is only beginning to show thanks to many governments worldwide and more recently, the NATO, perhaps all this, and all the shame and negativity are starting to come back to Microsoft. Am I naive? No. On the long run, Redmond has no other choice to open up or die.</p> -<p>This is where we stand, at the edge of the foam, as the tidal waves of change are soaking up the sands of idleness. Of course, it&#8217;s a tidal movement, so the sands fight it off and the waves do sometimes recede. When they do, they usually leave a clear and white track of foam behind them. This is where the industry finds itself, not knowing if it should go back to the illusory safety of the shore or if it should rather take on the ocean, blissfully feeling the call of the horizon and the sweet bites of the fresh water flowing all around it, then going away to better come back.</p> -<p>Oh, there is to be sure much left to do for Microsoft to embrace the competition and change. I have heard today that many out there are still locked into the proprietary platforms trap. An example of this is what&#8217;s happening right now at <a href="http://www.boc.cn/cn/static/index.html">the Bank of China</a>. This bank recently upgraded its systems to what appears to be an all Microsoft environment. As a result, its customers are only able to perform their banking operations through the good old Internet Explorer. Wake up, folks. We&#8217;re in 2008 and such things should have stopped a long time ago. But I don&#8217;t see the lock-in effect being lift up by Microsoft any time soon.</p> -<p>So I was thinking that perhaps the good way to end up this post was to point to the excellent <a href="http://opensource.org/node/352">Michael Tiemann&#8217;s blog</a>. I think Michael has devised some excellent proposals to Microsoft, and I could only wish for the same goals Michael is prescribing. Until then, I feel I should as a gracious gesture apologizing for my latest post about the OSP and the RAND license terms. What I wrote was absolutely true at that time, but I shall now leave it to Microsoft the duty to correct the impressions Ben Henrion and anyone who asked for the license terms for OOXML got when they received the answer from Redmond&#8217;s legal department.</p> -<p>The road to Canossa has just started&#8230;</p> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=85&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_85" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></description> - <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:51:28 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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