User: jpmcc   
Date: 2008-11-14 00:00:57+0000
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        <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>2008-11-13T18:00:55+00:00</updated>
+       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:54+00:00</updated>
        <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 
+http://www.planetplanet.org</generator>
 
        <entry xml:lang="en">
+               <title type="html">Para-sites flourish - search engines turn a 
blind eye</title>
+               <link 
href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/13/para-sites-flourish-search-engines-turn-a-blind-eye/"/>
+               <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=605</id>
+               <updated>2008-11-13T19:27:05+00:00</updated>
+               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I have warned before about &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://http//www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/&quot;&gt;the
 danger from para-sites&lt;/a&gt; that are cashing in on the popularity of the 
free open-source office software package &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.openoffice.org&quot;&gt;OpenOffice.org&lt;/a&gt;. This 
example from today&amp;#8217;s mail demonstrates it&amp;#8217;s not just a 
theoretical problem:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope that you don&amp;#8217;t mind that I send 
you this message. However, I  want to point you to a rip-off scheme that 
exploits OpenOffice.org&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I am myself an active member in the open source community and try to 
use open source software as far as possible (most prominently of course Linux 
and all the great stuff it offers). I am also a fan of OpenOffice.org and can 
only assure you that I try to use it as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I am actually a bit embarrassed to admit that fell into the trap of a 
rip-off web page. All I remember is that I was looking for OpenOffice.org 3.0 
and some how these guys managed to attract me to their Web pages. I did realize 
that I was misled and did of course then download OpenOffice.org from the 
official Web site. However, these guys still managed to get my data and to my 
big surprise they sent me the attached invoice for 96 Euro for a one year 
subscription to their service (which actually according to their TOS runs at 
least for 2 years). And this is the service of just providing open source 
software that you can find on the Web anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When I saw the invoice I immediately sent a letter that I 
don&amp;#8217;t want to have the subscription and that they should send me 
proof of evidence in how far access with my information was done on their 
machine. No answer to this letter but another invoice for another 8 Euros for 
additional costs.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;All I want to achieve with this message is to make you aware of what 
is going on there. According to the Web page (http://www.opendownload.de/) the 
top download is OpenOffice.org and I cannot imagine that you actually are happy 
to see that people are running such a rip-off scheme on the back of 
OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Of course, I would be interested to know if I see anything wrong 
here. However, I believe that such things happening can severely damage the 
reputation of open source software and should by all means stopped as soon as 
possible.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Please understand that this message is not about money. I would be  
glad to make a donation of the amount of this money involved (see it as a 
punishment of myself to be stupid enough to fall into the trap of these guys) 
to OpenOffice.org&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I would be glad if you could send me a brief message as a feedback so 
that I would know your opinion.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;With best regards,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What can be done about it? very little, as long as search engine 
operators continue to accept money for diverting people to their 
para-sites.&lt;/p&gt;</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>2008-11-14T00:00:15+00:00</updated>
+               </source>
+       </entry>
+
+       <entry xml:lang="en">
                <title type="html">Ian Lynch on Malaysia’s Open Source 
Strategy</title>
                <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/909"/>
                <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=909</id>
@@ -33,7 +62,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-13T18:00:37+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:37+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -53,7 +82,7 @@
                        <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories 
about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id>
-                       <updated>2008-11-12T12:00:32+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:49+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -74,7 +103,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-13T18:00:37+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:37+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -94,7 +123,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-11T00:00:15+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:15+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -120,7 +149,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-12T00:00:28+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:53+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -146,7 +175,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-13T18:00:37+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:37+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -166,7 +195,7 @@
                        <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories 
about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id>
-                       <updated>2008-11-12T12:00:32+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:49+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -189,7 +218,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-11T00:00:15+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:15+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -210,7 +239,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-13T18:00:37+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:37+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -243,7 +272,7 @@
                        <subtitle type="html">Open Opinions about Open Source 
Software</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/>
                        <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id>
-                       <updated>2008-11-13T18:00:52+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:45+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -265,7 +294,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-13T18:00:37+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:37+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -285,7 +314,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-11T00:00:15+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:15+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -315,7 +344,7 @@
                        <subtitle type="html">Open Opinions about Open Source 
Software</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/>
                        <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id>
-                       <updated>2008-11-13T18:00:52+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:45+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -340,7 +369,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-13T18:00:37+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:37+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -359,7 +388,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-11T00:00:15+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:15+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -383,7 +412,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-13T18:00:37+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:37+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -406,7 +435,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-11T00:00:15+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:15+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -427,56 +456,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-13T18:00:37+00:00</updated>
-               </source>
-       </entry>
-
-       <entry xml:lang="en">
-               <title type="html">Links for the end of October</title>
-               <link 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/"/>
-               
<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/</id>
-               <updated>2008-10-29T14:57:55+00:00</updated>
-               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I am bit swamped these days, and 
you must have noticed it by now. These things happen: lots of work items, lots 
of backlog, and lots of exhaustion as well. Since I don&amp;#8217;t want to 
leave this blog « unattended » for even 2 or three weeks, I am posting 
today some links I find interesting to visit. Enjoy! I&amp;#8217;ll be back 
soon, by the way&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx&quot;&gt;Microsoft 
releases Windows Azure&lt;/a&gt;. But what is it really? That&amp;#8217;s what 
I&amp;#8217;m trying to figure out. It seems it&amp;#8217;s a server platform 
tailored for cloud computing environment. And what is cloud computing? 
I&amp;#8217;m still figuring it out&amp;#8230; Seriously, Cloud Computing is 
the up and coming state-of-the-art in IT. The idea is to use and benefit from 
data, applications, and networks that are hosted not on your desktop, and not 
on a server near you. In fact, data and applications are always available but 
out there, on the Network, in the cloud. Of course, it sounds simple, but 
it&amp;#8217;s very, very complex. It&amp;#8217;s a true shift of paradigm, a 
copernician revolution asking as many questions that it answers, from  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://dataportability.org/&quot;&gt;data portability&lt;/a&gt; and  
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.autonomo.us/&quot;&gt;users&amp;#8217; 
rights&lt;/a&gt; to virtualized environment and  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.joyent.com/&quot;&gt;application frameworks&lt;/a&gt;. 
And that&amp;#8217;s where players such as Amazon, Joyent and Google are 
striving. And of course, Microsoft wants to be the dominant player there. So it 
released a nifty platform that is both a server for running distributed 
applications and hosting data, and a Microsoft’s  Live set of Services. 
That&amp;#8217;s where it&amp;#8217;s not clear. They say everything works on 
Azure, but it seems you better want to use their stuff first. Just like the 
others, it will work, but&amp;#8230; better.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Do you remember the nice subway map picturing the trends of web sites 
and online services? Well, that map was for 2007. But there&amp;#8217;s the new 
one I completely missed.  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://informationarchitects.jp/start/&quot;&gt;Enjoy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;There you go. Firefox 3 with the newest javascript engine, and all of 
a sudden, it actually becomes a fast browser on the Mac!  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/26/screaming-fast-mozilla-browser-minefield-gives-a-glimpse-of-fire/&quot;&gt;Try
 Minefield&lt;/a&gt;, it&amp;#8217;s a surprisingly stable development version 
of Firefox 3 with a different javascript engine.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.transnationalrepublic.org/&quot;&gt;Food 
for thought&lt;/a&gt;: I share with them the conviction that large corporation 
are dwarfing most governments these days. I am no pessimist though: those very 
same governments could very well come back if they were willing to. But most of 
them seem to be ideologically blinded, and that&amp;#8217;s a pity. Meanwhile, 
feel free to adhere. It comes from Europe, and it&amp;#8217;s 
free&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.linux.com/feature/151215&quot;&gt;Pondering Boycott 
Novell&lt;/a&gt; must be a funny thing to do. But what&amp;#8217;s the problem? 
The news web site is accused by some to be a troll machine, while some others 
worship it. My view on this is simple: I&amp;#8217;m a reader of this web site, 
and whenever I was involved in some specific situations or was having some 
solid information on them, I was able to read accurate reports on these. 
That&amp;#8217;s the about the most honest answer I can make. Roy is a good 
guy, he&amp;#8217;s actually taking out the meat and lay it on the table. 
Should he be doing it in a different fashion, with more style and less passion? 
Perhaps. Meanwhile, I have more fun reading his prose than the one Mr Byfield 
regales us with along with his paternalistic advices on why we, the community 
of freetards &amp;amp; beardies, should learn from big businesses.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;People are getting busy preparing the OooCon 2008 in Beijing; for our 
Asian community, the location makes it an obvious point of focus. But  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7614509/&quot;&gt;this 
illustrates&lt;/a&gt; how OpenOffice.org has become an international community 
of choice. Good luck with the conference! And see you next year, 
OOoCon.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;News without a link: OpenOffice.org 2.4.2, the last maintenance 
release of the 2.x branch, is about to be uploaded. If you don&amp;#8217;t want 
to use the 3.0 (some organization needs time before fully qualifying new 
versions of office suite), that one is for you. Stay tuned.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;News without a link continued: the ISO 26300 (aka ODF 1.0)  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200810/msg00155.html&quot;&gt;gets
 an errata&lt;/a&gt;, and you&amp;#8217;re welcome to comment on it for the 
next 15 days. No big news, here again, it&amp;#8217;s all about 
maintenance&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p class=&quot;akst_link&quot;&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=101&amp;akst_action=share-this&quot;
 title=&quot;E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.&quot; 
id=&quot;akst_link_101&quot; class=&quot;akst_share_link&quot; 
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Share This&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;/p&gt;</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>2008-11-11T12:00:16+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:37+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -497,7 +477,7 @@
                        <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>2008-11-13T18:00:37+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2008-11-14T00:00:37+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 

File [changed]: foafroll.xml
Url: 
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--- foafroll.xml        2008-07-25 23:59:03+0000        1.13
+++ foafroll.xml        2008-11-14 00:00:53+0000        1.14
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
                <foaf:Agent>
                        <foaf:name>Charles Schulz</foaf:name>
                        <foaf:weblog>
-                               <foaf:Document 
rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net";>
-                                       <dc:title>Moved by Freedom - Powered by 
Standards » OOo Postings</dc:title>
+                               <foaf:Document rdf:about="">
+                                       <dc:title></dc:title>
                                        <rdfs:seeAlso>
                                                <rss:channel 
rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"; 
/>
                                        </rdfs:seeAlso>

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--- index.html  2008-11-13 18:00:55+0000        1.1168
+++ index.html  2008-11-14 00:00:53+0000        1.1169
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 <h2>Contributors</h2>
 <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com"; title="The Open Sourcerer » 
OpenOffice.org">Alan Lord</a> <a 
href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed";>(feed)</a><br />
 <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » 
OpenOffice.org">Benjamin Horst</a> <a 
href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed";>(feed)</a><br
 />
-<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by 
Standards » OOo Postings">Charles Schulz</a> <a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed";>(feed)</a><br
 />
+<a href="" title="">Charles Schulz</a> <a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed";>(feed)</a><br
 />
 <a href="http://cdriga.kfacts.com"; title="cdriga's blog on IT &amp;amp; Open 
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 />
 <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/"; title="Erwin's StarOffice Tango">Erwin 
Tenhumberg</a> <a 
href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss";>(feed)</a><br />
 <a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader">GullFOSS</a> <a 
href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast";>(feed)</a><br
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 </div>
 
-<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: November 13, 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: November 14, 2008 12:00 
AM GMT</em></p>
 
 <h2>November 13, 2008</h2>
 <h3>
+<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org">
+John McCreesh</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
+<a 
href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/13/para-sites-flourish-search-engines-turn-a-blind-eye/";>
+Para-sites flourish - search engines turn a blind eye</a>
+</h3>
+<p>
+<p>I have warned before about <a 
href="http://http//www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/";>the
 danger from para-sites</a> that are cashing in on the popularity of the free 
open-source office software package <a 
href="http://www.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org</a>. This example from 
today&#8217;s mail demonstrates it&#8217;s not just a theoretical problem:</p>
+<blockquote><p>I hope that you don&#8217;t mind that I send you this message. 
However, I  want to point you to a rip-off scheme that exploits 
OpenOffice.org</p>
+<p>I am myself an active member in the open source community and try to use 
open source software as far as possible (most prominently of course Linux and 
all the great stuff it offers). I am also a fan of OpenOffice.org and can only 
assure you that I try to use it as much as possible.</p>
+<p>I am actually a bit embarrassed to admit that fell into the trap of a 
rip-off web page. All I remember is that I was looking for OpenOffice.org 3.0 
and some how these guys managed to attract me to their Web pages. I did realize 
that I was misled and did of course then download OpenOffice.org from the 
official Web site. However, these guys still managed to get my data and to my 
big surprise they sent me the attached invoice for 96 Euro for a one year 
subscription to their service (which actually according to their TOS runs at 
least for 2 years). And this is the service of just providing open source 
software that you can find on the Web anyway.</p>
+<p>When I saw the invoice I immediately sent a letter that I don&#8217;t want 
to have the subscription and that they should send me proof of evidence in how 
far access with my information was done on their machine. No answer to this 
letter but another invoice for another 8 Euros for additional costs.</p>
+<p>All I want to achieve with this message is to make you aware of what is 
going on there. According to the Web page (http://www.opendownload.de/) the top 
download is OpenOffice.org and I cannot imagine that you actually are happy to 
see that people are running such a rip-off scheme on the back of 
OpenOffice.org.</p>
+<p>Of course, I would be interested to know if I see anything wrong here. 
However, I believe that such things happening can severely damage the 
reputation of open source software and should by all means stopped as soon as 
possible.</p>
+<p>Please understand that this message is not about money. I would be  glad to 
make a donation of the amount of this money involved (see it as a punishment of 
myself to be stupid enough to fall into the trap of these guys) to 
OpenOffice.org</p>
+<p>I would be glad if you could send me a brief message as a feedback so that 
I would know your opinion.</p>
+<p>With best regards,</p></blockquote>
+<p>What can be done about it? very little, as long as search engine operators 
continue to accept money for diverting people to their para-sites.</p></p>
+<p>
+<em><a 
href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/13/para-sites-flourish-search-engines-turn-a-blind-eye/";>by
 John at November 13, 2008 07:27 PM GMT</a></em>
+</p>
+<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/909";>
@@ -384,50 +408,6 @@
 <br />
 <hr />
 <br />
-<h3>
-<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by 
Standards » OOo Postings">
-Charles Schulz</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
-<a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/";>
-Links for the end of October</a>
-</h3>
-<p>
-<p>I am bit swamped these days, and you must have noticed it by now. These 
things happen: lots of work items, lots of backlog, and lots of exhaustion as 
well. Since I don&#8217;t want to leave this blog « unattended » for even 2 
or three weeks, I am posting today some links I find interesting to visit. 
Enjoy! I&#8217;ll be back soon, by the way&#8230;</p>
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
-<ul>
-<li>
-<p> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx";>Microsoft releases 
Windows Azure</a>. But what is it really? That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m trying to 
figure out. It seems it&#8217;s a server platform tailored for cloud computing 
environment. And what is cloud computing? I&#8217;m still figuring it 
out&#8230; Seriously, Cloud Computing is the up and coming state-of-the-art in 
IT. The idea is to use and benefit from data, applications, and networks that 
are hosted not on your desktop, and not on a server near you. In fact, data and 
applications are always available but out there, on the Network, in the cloud. 
Of course, it sounds simple, but it&#8217;s very, very complex. It&#8217;s a 
true shift of paradigm, a copernician revolution asking as many questions that 
it answers, from  <a href="http://dataportability.org/";>data portability</a> 
and  <a href="http://www.autonomo.us/";>users&#8217; rights</a> to virtualized 
environment and  <a href="http://www.joyent.com/";>application frameworks</a>. 
And that&#8217;s where players such as Amazon, Joyent and Google are striving. 
And of course, Microsoft wants to be the dominant player there. So it released 
a nifty platform that is both a server for running distributed applications and 
hosting data, and a Microsoft’s  Live set of Services. That&#8217;s where 
it&#8217;s not clear. They say everything works on Azure, but it seems you 
better want to use their stuff first. Just like the others, it will work, 
but&#8230; better.</p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p>Do you remember the nice subway map picturing the trends of web sites and 
online services? Well, that map was for 2007. But there&#8217;s the new one I 
completely missed.  <a 
href="http://informationarchitects.jp/start/";>Enjoy</a>&#8230;</p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p>There you go. Firefox 3 with the newest javascript engine, and all of a 
sudden, it actually becomes a fast browser on the Mac!  <a 
href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/26/screaming-fast-mozilla-browser-minefield-gives-a-glimpse-of-fire/";>Try
 Minefield</a>, it&#8217;s a surprisingly stable development version of Firefox 
3 with a different javascript engine.</p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p> <a href="http://www.transnationalrepublic.org/";>Food for thought</a>: I 
share with them the conviction that large corporation are dwarfing most 
governments these days. I am no pessimist though: those very same governments 
could very well come back if they were willing to. But most of them seem to be 
ideologically blinded, and that&#8217;s a pity. Meanwhile, feel free to adhere. 
It comes from Europe, and it&#8217;s free&#8230;</p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p> <a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/151215";>Pondering Boycott Novell</a> 
must be a funny thing to do. But what&#8217;s the problem? The news web site is 
accused by some to be a troll machine, while some others worship it. My view on 
this is simple: I&#8217;m a reader of this web site, and whenever I was 
involved in some specific situations or was having some solid information on 
them, I was able to read accurate reports on these. That&#8217;s the about the 
most honest answer I can make. Roy is a good guy, he&#8217;s actually taking 
out the meat and lay it on the table. Should he be doing it in a different 
fashion, with more style and less passion? Perhaps. Meanwhile, I have more fun 
reading his prose than the one Mr Byfield regales us with along with his 
paternalistic advices on why we, the community of freetards &amp; beardies, 
should learn from big businesses.</p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p>People are getting busy preparing the OooCon 2008 in Beijing; for our Asian 
community, the location makes it an obvious point of focus. But  <a 
href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7614509/";>this illustrates</a> how 
OpenOffice.org has become an international community of choice. Good luck with 
the conference! And see you next year, OOoCon.</p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p>News without a link: OpenOffice.org 2.4.2, the last maintenance release of 
the 2.x branch, is about to be uploaded. If you don&#8217;t want to use the 3.0 
(some organization needs time before fully qualifying new versions of office 
suite), that one is for you. Stay tuned.</p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p>News without a link continued: the ISO 26300 (aka ODF 1.0)  <a 
href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200810/msg00155.html";>gets an 
errata</a>, and you&#8217;re welcome to comment on it for the next 15 days. No 
big news, here again, it&#8217;s all about maintenance&#8230;</p>
-</li>
-</ul>
-<p><br clear="left" /></p>
-<p class="akst_link"><a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=101&akst_action=share-this"; 
title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_101" 
class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a>
-</p></p>
-<p>
-<em><a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/";>by
 Charles at October 29, 2008 02:57 PM GMT</a></em>
-</p>
-<br />
-<hr />
-<br />
 <h2>October 28, 2008</h2>
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 <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org">

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                <title>Marketing Planet</title>
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xmlUrl="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"; 
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xmlUrl="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"; 
title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings" />
+               <outline type="rss" text="Charles Schulz" 
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+<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=605";>
+       <title>John McCreesh: Para-sites flourish - search engines turn a blind 
eye</title>
+       
<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/13/para-sites-flourish-search-engines-turn-a-blind-eye/</link>
+       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I have warned before about &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://http//www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/&quot;&gt;the
 danger from para-sites&lt;/a&gt; that are cashing in on the popularity of the 
free open-source office software package &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.openoffice.org&quot;&gt;OpenOffice.org&lt;/a&gt;. This 
example from today&amp;#8217;s mail demonstrates it&amp;#8217;s not just a 
theoretical problem:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope that you don&amp;#8217;t mind that I send 
you this message. However, I  want to point you to a rip-off scheme that 
exploits OpenOffice.org&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I am myself an active member in the open source community and try to 
use open source software as far as possible (most prominently of course Linux 
and all the great stuff it offers). I am also a fan of OpenOffice.org and can 
only assure you that I try to use it as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I am actually a bit embarrassed to admit that fell into the trap of a 
rip-off web page. All I remember is that I was looking for OpenOffice.org 3.0 
and some how these guys managed to attract me to their Web pages. I did realize 
that I was misled and did of course then download OpenOffice.org from the 
official Web site. However, these guys still managed to get my data and to my 
big surprise they sent me the attached invoice for 96 Euro for a one year 
subscription to their service (which actually according to their TOS runs at 
least for 2 years). And this is the service of just providing open source 
software that you can find on the Web anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When I saw the invoice I immediately sent a letter that I 
don&amp;#8217;t want to have the subscription and that they should send me 
proof of evidence in how far access with my information was done on their 
machine. No answer to this letter but another invoice for another 8 Euros for 
additional costs.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;All I want to achieve with this message is to make you aware of what 
is going on there. According to the Web page (http://www.opendownload.de/) the 
top download is OpenOffice.org and I cannot imagine that you actually are happy 
to see that people are running such a rip-off scheme on the back of 
OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Of course, I would be interested to know if I see anything wrong 
here. However, I believe that such things happening can severely damage the 
reputation of open source software and should by all means stopped as soon as 
possible.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Please understand that this message is not about money. I would be  
glad to make a donation of the amount of this money involved (see it as a 
punishment of myself to be stupid enough to fall into the trap of these guys) 
to OpenOffice.org&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I would be glad if you could send me a brief message as a feedback so 
that I would know your opinion.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;With best regards,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What can be done about it? very little, as long as search engine 
operators continue to accept money for diverting people to their 
para-sites.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
+       <dc:date>2008-11-13T19:27:05+00:00</dc:date>
+</item>
 <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=909";>
        <title>Benjamin Horst: Ian Lynch on Malaysia’s Open Source 
Strategy</title>
        <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/909</link>
@@ -226,42 +242,6 @@
 &lt;p&gt;Most of Moody&amp;#8217;s links lead to articles in Russian, so I 
cannot glean anything from them. However, when he runs them through software 
translation, Moody discovers that Russia plans to have one million computers in 
schools by 2010, and their default software platform will be locally-customized 
open source applications (presumably including Linux, OpenOffice, etc). After a 
three-year period, schools will be permitted to switch back to proprietary 
programs, but they&amp;#8217;ll have to pay the licensing fees on their own. I 
do not expect many will be interested by that 
option.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/";>
-       <title>Charles Schulz: Links for the end of October</title>
-       
<link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/</link>
-       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I am bit swamped these days, and you must 
have noticed it by now. These things happen: lots of work items, lots of 
backlog, and lots of exhaustion as well. Since I don&amp;#8217;t want to leave 
this blog « unattended » for even 2 or three weeks, I am posting today some 
links I find interesting to visit. Enjoy! I&amp;#8217;ll be back soon, by the 
way&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx&quot;&gt;Microsoft 
releases Windows Azure&lt;/a&gt;. But what is it really? That&amp;#8217;s what 
I&amp;#8217;m trying to figure out. It seems it&amp;#8217;s a server platform 
tailored for cloud computing environment. And what is cloud computing? 
I&amp;#8217;m still figuring it out&amp;#8230; Seriously, Cloud Computing is 
the up and coming state-of-the-art in IT. The idea is to use and benefit from 
data, applications, and networks that are hosted not on your desktop, and not 
on a server near you. In fact, data and applications are always available but 
out there, on the Network, in the cloud. Of course, it sounds simple, but 
it&amp;#8217;s very, very complex. It&amp;#8217;s a true shift of paradigm, a 
copernician revolution asking as many questions that it answers, from  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://dataportability.org/&quot;&gt;data portability&lt;/a&gt; and  
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.autonomo.us/&quot;&gt;users&amp;#8217; 
rights&lt;/a&gt; to virtualized environment and  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.joyent.com/&quot;&gt;application frameworks&lt;/a&gt;. 
And that&amp;#8217;s where players such as Amazon, Joyent and Google are 
striving. And of course, Microsoft wants to be the dominant player there. So it 
released a nifty platform that is both a server for running distributed 
applications and hosting data, and a Microsoft’s  Live set of Services. 
That&amp;#8217;s where it&amp;#8217;s not clear. They say everything works on 
Azure, but it seems you better want to use their stuff first. Just like the 
others, it will work, but&amp;#8230; better.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Do you remember the nice subway map picturing the trends of web sites 
and online services? Well, that map was for 2007. But there&amp;#8217;s the new 
one I completely missed.  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://informationarchitects.jp/start/&quot;&gt;Enjoy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;There you go. Firefox 3 with the newest javascript engine, and all of 
a sudden, it actually becomes a fast browser on the Mac!  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/26/screaming-fast-mozilla-browser-minefield-gives-a-glimpse-of-fire/&quot;&gt;Try
 Minefield&lt;/a&gt;, it&amp;#8217;s a surprisingly stable development version 
of Firefox 3 with a different javascript engine.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.transnationalrepublic.org/&quot;&gt;Food 
for thought&lt;/a&gt;: I share with them the conviction that large corporation 
are dwarfing most governments these days. I am no pessimist though: those very 
same governments could very well come back if they were willing to. But most of 
them seem to be ideologically blinded, and that&amp;#8217;s a pity. Meanwhile, 
feel free to adhere. It comes from Europe, and it&amp;#8217;s 
free&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.linux.com/feature/151215&quot;&gt;Pondering Boycott 
Novell&lt;/a&gt; must be a funny thing to do. But what&amp;#8217;s the problem? 
The news web site is accused by some to be a troll machine, while some others 
worship it. My view on this is simple: I&amp;#8217;m a reader of this web site, 
and whenever I was involved in some specific situations or was having some 
solid information on them, I was able to read accurate reports on these. 
That&amp;#8217;s the about the most honest answer I can make. Roy is a good 
guy, he&amp;#8217;s actually taking out the meat and lay it on the table. 
Should he be doing it in a different fashion, with more style and less passion? 
Perhaps. Meanwhile, I have more fun reading his prose than the one Mr Byfield 
regales us with along with his paternalistic advices on why we, the community 
of freetards &amp;amp; beardies, should learn from big businesses.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;People are getting busy preparing the OooCon 2008 in Beijing; for our 
Asian community, the location makes it an obvious point of focus. But  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7614509/&quot;&gt;this 
illustrates&lt;/a&gt; how OpenOffice.org has become an international community 
of choice. Good luck with the conference! And see you next year, 
OOoCon.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;News without a link: OpenOffice.org 2.4.2, the last maintenance 
release of the 2.x branch, is about to be uploaded. If you don&amp;#8217;t want 
to use the 3.0 (some organization needs time before fully qualifying new 
versions of office suite), that one is for you. Stay tuned.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;News without a link continued: the ISO 26300 (aka ODF 1.0)  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200810/msg00155.html&quot;&gt;gets
 an errata&lt;/a&gt;, and you&amp;#8217;re welcome to comment on it for the 
next 15 days. No big news, here again, it&amp;#8217;s all about 
maintenance&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p class=&quot;akst_link&quot;&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=101&amp;akst_action=share-this&quot;
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        <description>Marketing Planet - 
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+       <title>John McCreesh: Para-sites flourish - search engines turn a blind 
eye</title>
+       <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=605</guid>
+       
<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/13/para-sites-flourish-search-engines-turn-a-blind-eye/</link>
+       <description>&lt;p&gt;I have warned before about &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://http//www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/&quot;&gt;the
 danger from para-sites&lt;/a&gt; that are cashing in on the popularity of the 
free open-source office software package &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.openoffice.org&quot;&gt;OpenOffice.org&lt;/a&gt;. This 
example from today&amp;#8217;s mail demonstrates it&amp;#8217;s not just a 
theoretical problem:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope that you don&amp;#8217;t mind that I send 
you this message. However, I  want to point you to a rip-off scheme that 
exploits OpenOffice.org&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I am myself an active member in the open source community and try to 
use open source software as far as possible (most prominently of course Linux 
and all the great stuff it offers). I am also a fan of OpenOffice.org and can 
only assure you that I try to use it as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I am actually a bit embarrassed to admit that fell into the trap of a 
rip-off web page. All I remember is that I was looking for OpenOffice.org 3.0 
and some how these guys managed to attract me to their Web pages. I did realize 
that I was misled and did of course then download OpenOffice.org from the 
official Web site. However, these guys still managed to get my data and to my 
big surprise they sent me the attached invoice for 96 Euro for a one year 
subscription to their service (which actually according to their TOS runs at 
least for 2 years). And this is the service of just providing open source 
software that you can find on the Web anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When I saw the invoice I immediately sent a letter that I 
don&amp;#8217;t want to have the subscription and that they should send me 
proof of evidence in how far access with my information was done on their 
machine. No answer to this letter but another invoice for another 8 Euros for 
additional costs.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;All I want to achieve with this message is to make you aware of what 
is going on there. According to the Web page (http://www.opendownload.de/) the 
top download is OpenOffice.org and I cannot imagine that you actually are happy 
to see that people are running such a rip-off scheme on the back of 
OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Of course, I would be interested to know if I see anything wrong 
here. However, I believe that such things happening can severely damage the 
reputation of open source software and should by all means stopped as soon as 
possible.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Please understand that this message is not about money. I would be  
glad to make a donation of the amount of this money involved (see it as a 
punishment of myself to be stupid enough to fall into the trap of these guys) 
to OpenOffice.org&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I would be glad if you could send me a brief message as a feedback so 
that I would know your opinion.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;With best regards,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What can be done about it? very little, as long as search engine 
operators continue to accept money for diverting people to their 
para-sites.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
+       <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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        <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=909</guid>
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-       <title>Charles Schulz: Links for the end of October</title>
-       
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-       
<link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/</link>
-       <description>&lt;p&gt;I am bit swamped these days, and you must have 
noticed it by now. These things happen: lots of work items, lots of backlog, 
and lots of exhaustion as well. Since I don&amp;#8217;t want to leave this blog 
« unattended » for even 2 or three weeks, I am posting today some links I 
find interesting to visit. Enjoy! I&amp;#8217;ll be back soon, by the 
way&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx&quot;&gt;Microsoft 
releases Windows Azure&lt;/a&gt;. But what is it really? That&amp;#8217;s what 
I&amp;#8217;m trying to figure out. It seems it&amp;#8217;s a server platform 
tailored for cloud computing environment. And what is cloud computing? 
I&amp;#8217;m still figuring it out&amp;#8230; Seriously, Cloud Computing is 
the up and coming state-of-the-art in IT. The idea is to use and benefit from 
data, applications, and networks that are hosted not on your desktop, and not 
on a server near you. In fact, data and applications are always available but 
out there, on the Network, in the cloud. Of course, it sounds simple, but 
it&amp;#8217;s very, very complex. It&amp;#8217;s a true shift of paradigm, a 
copernician revolution asking as many questions that it answers, from  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://dataportability.org/&quot;&gt;data portability&lt;/a&gt; and  
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.autonomo.us/&quot;&gt;users&amp;#8217; 
rights&lt;/a&gt; to virtualized environment and  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.joyent.com/&quot;&gt;application frameworks&lt;/a&gt;. 
And that&amp;#8217;s where players such as Amazon, Joyent and Google are 
striving. And of course, Microsoft wants to be the dominant player there. So it 
released a nifty platform that is both a server for running distributed 
applications and hosting data, and a Microsoft’s  Live set of Services. 
That&amp;#8217;s where it&amp;#8217;s not clear. They say everything works on 
Azure, but it seems you better want to use their stuff first. Just like the 
others, it will work, but&amp;#8230; better.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Do you remember the nice subway map picturing the trends of web sites 
and online services? Well, that map was for 2007. But there&amp;#8217;s the new 
one I completely missed.  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://informationarchitects.jp/start/&quot;&gt;Enjoy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;There you go. Firefox 3 with the newest javascript engine, and all of 
a sudden, it actually becomes a fast browser on the Mac!  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/26/screaming-fast-mozilla-browser-minefield-gives-a-glimpse-of-fire/&quot;&gt;Try
 Minefield&lt;/a&gt;, it&amp;#8217;s a surprisingly stable development version 
of Firefox 3 with a different javascript engine.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.transnationalrepublic.org/&quot;&gt;Food 
for thought&lt;/a&gt;: I share with them the conviction that large corporation 
are dwarfing most governments these days. I am no pessimist though: those very 
same governments could very well come back if they were willing to. But most of 
them seem to be ideologically blinded, and that&amp;#8217;s a pity. Meanwhile, 
feel free to adhere. It comes from Europe, and it&amp;#8217;s 
free&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.linux.com/feature/151215&quot;&gt;Pondering Boycott 
Novell&lt;/a&gt; must be a funny thing to do. But what&amp;#8217;s the problem? 
The news web site is accused by some to be a troll machine, while some others 
worship it. My view on this is simple: I&amp;#8217;m a reader of this web site, 
and whenever I was involved in some specific situations or was having some 
solid information on them, I was able to read accurate reports on these. 
That&amp;#8217;s the about the most honest answer I can make. Roy is a good 
guy, he&amp;#8217;s actually taking out the meat and lay it on the table. 
Should he be doing it in a different fashion, with more style and less passion? 
Perhaps. Meanwhile, I have more fun reading his prose than the one Mr Byfield 
regales us with along with his paternalistic advices on why we, the community 
of freetards &amp;amp; beardies, should learn from big businesses.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;People are getting busy preparing the OooCon 2008 in Beijing; for our 
Asian community, the location makes it an obvious point of focus. But  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7614509/&quot;&gt;this 
illustrates&lt;/a&gt; how OpenOffice.org has become an international community 
of choice. Good luck with the conference! And see you next year, 
OOoCon.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;News without a link: OpenOffice.org 2.4.2, the last maintenance 
release of the 2.x branch, is about to be uploaded. If you don&amp;#8217;t want 
to use the 3.0 (some organization needs time before fully qualifying new 
versions of office suite), that one is for you. Stay tuned.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;News without a link continued: the ISO 26300 (aka ODF 1.0)  &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200810/msg00155.html&quot;&gt;gets
 an errata&lt;/a&gt;, and you&amp;#8217;re welcome to comment on it for the 
next 15 days. No big news, here again, it&amp;#8217;s all about 
maintenance&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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