User: jpmcc Date: 2009-01-07 11:59:45+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 Wed Jan 7 12:00:15 GMT 2009 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1365&r2=1.1366 Delta lines: +43 -33 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-01-07 05:59:30+0000 1.1365 +++ atom.xml 2009-01-07 11:59:41+0000 1.1366 @@ -5,10 +5,48 @@ <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>2009-01-07T06:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T12:00:34+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Doubts &amp; Hopes</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/</id> + <updated>2009-01-07T10:56:07+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>This post is a follow-up of yesterday&#8217;s piece, <a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/">Predictions &amp; Resolutions</a>. Today I will list many things that do not relate to I.T. , some others that do. But in general, I&#8217;ll share what I&#8217;m mostly uncertain with for the year 2009.<span class="Apple-style-span">Doubts</span> +<ul> +<li> Israël has the right to exist, live in peace. Palestinians do as well. That&#8217;s why a terrorist movement like the Hamas has no right to send missiles on Israeli cities. But Israel&#8217;s counter-attack will be ineffective against the Hamas, I&#8217;m afraid. The reason for this is the very structure of the Hamas. It&#8217;s a distributed group, and so is Al-Quaeda and in general, terrorist movements. You cannot fight against those structures with the usual means of warfare. Another thing I was at pain understanding for years was the seemingly anti-Israeli bias public opinions have all around the world. Some are outrightly manipulated for religious reasons. But some are not, and have nothing in the way of antisemitic views. In short the whole perception is the one of a reverse David vs. Goliath fight. There are several reasons for this. But something need to be done to come back to a more balanced view and more balanced ambitions from both sides. I hope, in this doubt section, that the Obama presidency could help.</li> +<li>I don&#8217;t think governments in general are taking the whole measure of the crisis (perhaps except the upcoming Obama administration). This is why 2009 will be painful. In several European countries, the political and generational gap, not to speak of the social inequalities that have been growing in a way this continent was accustomed to will sparkle riots, and lots of instability. It has already started in Greece.</li> +<li>European governments all buy into the too worn-off free market ideology. As we have come to understand, this is an ideology (and thus is a factor of danger) that has proven to be a failure, in the same way communism was a failure, allowing some happy few to benefit the system and generating lots of noise. Now don&#8217;t get me wrong: free market is a beautiful idea, (perhaps, some might argue, just like communism in the book was) but it is merely just this, an idea, and an economist&#8217;s traditional cornucopia of sorts. Now these governments seem to be too busy with exerting pressure on their own citizens by trying to control medias and the Internet than actually addressing people&#8217;s problems. They might actually be powerless in front of such a crisis, but they&#8217;re also unwilling to bring change to our societies, change that would make their own mental horizon change itself. The power of habits and customs&#8230;.</li> +<li>On a different level, OOXML will continue to be pushed by Microsoft and marketed to everyone, governments included. That&#8217;s a trap many will fall into, but as you know there&#8217;s a way out: ODF. Meanwhile, the deception OOXML is should be fully advertised so that all can be warned.</li> +<li>Will Apple ever include ODF support in iWork? iWork 09 doesn&#8217;t seem to support it, but I might be wrong. TextEdit is not enough. </li> +<li>Software Patents will be pushed again and again in Europe. Contrary to my friend <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/">Trond Arne Undheim</a>, I don&#8217;t think that ex-ante disclosure is that of a good thing: it is merely a much welcome, yet minimal, hygienic measure to an insane situation affecting the I.T. market and innovation.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Hopes</span> +<ul> +<li>OpenOffice.org will go out of traditional desktop application.  Perhaps not in 2009, but very likely later. I&#8217;ll go back on this in another future post, but you <a href="http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/">can check this out</a>&#8230;</li> +<li>I have been a strong critic of Novell&#8217;s agreement of Microsoft, but there is one thing I have never denied and that would be how great <a href="http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/">OpenSuse</a> is for a distribution. Now what&#8217;s both interesting and unfortunate with OpenSuse is that the Novell&#8217;s agreement with Microsoft does explicitely not apply to OpenSuse, and that the distribution really opened itself, as a project and as a platform on which to build on. So my legal question here is to check how much legally chaotic OpenSuse got. By welcoming everyone to contribute code, it might have created a situation where neither Novell, nor Microsoft could  exert any kind of pressure or FUD, as their own intellectual property (whatever that means) is now strongly diluted in packaged mess. </li> +<li>I love SecondLife, I really do. But sim crossing and avatar limits? Come on, get real, Linden Labs. Despite those shortcomings, I&#8217;m spending more and more times there. </li> +<li>ODF has already been adopted by 16 governments. My hope is to see that number double by the end of 2009.</li> +<li>All in all, I expect 2009 to be a year of crisis, but to be a year of positive change in the world. Or perhaps it will be a year of full-blown crisis. But even then, let&#8217;s all remember that the hour before dawn is the darkest time of the night&#8230;</li> +</ul> +<p>Happy new year to everyone!<span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=112&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_112" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p></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>2009-01-07T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Predictions &amp; Resolutions</title> <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</id> @@ -41,7 +79,7 @@ <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>2009-01-07T00:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T12:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -207,7 +245,7 @@ <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>2009-01-07T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T12:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -347,7 +385,7 @@ <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>2009-01-07T00:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T12:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -507,35 +545,7 @@ <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>2009-01-07T00:00:15+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">New: OOo-DEV 3.0 Developer Snapshot (build OOO300_m13) available</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_027"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3bf70cd3d5faaef2</id> - <updated>2008-12-11T15:54:39+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev </b>build <b>OOO300_m13</b> which installs as OOo-DEV 3.0 has -been uploaded to the mirror network. OOO300 is the development branch for OppenOffice.org 3.0.1<br /><br />If -you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. If you think the -issue is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.<br /> <br />Please use the following link<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/300/index.html">http://download.openoffice.org/300/index.html</a></p> - <p>When the Bouncer links don't work, please select one of the -<b>extended</b> mirrors at the following page ( <b>listed with an [E]</b> ) and -download the bits from the &quot;.../extended/developer/OOO300_m13&quot; directory:<br /><a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors">http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors</a></p><a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors"></a> - <p> </p> - <p>MD5SUMS: -<br /><a title="Page containing MD5SUM checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/300/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/300/md5sums.html</a></p></content> - <author> - <name>Marcus Lange</name> - <uri></uri> - </author> - <source> - <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>2009-01-07T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T12:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1372&r2=1.1373 Delta lines: +35 -25 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-01-07 05:59:30+0000 1.1372 +++ index.html 2009-01-07 11:59:41+0000 1.1373 @@ -37,8 +37,42 @@ <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: January 07, 2009 06:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 07, 2009 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>January 07, 2009</h2> +<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/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/";> +Doubts & Hopes</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>This post is a follow-up of yesterday’s piece, <a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/";>Predictions & Resolutions</a>. Today I will list many things that do not relate to I.T. , some others that do. But in general, I’ll share what I’m mostly uncertain with for the year 2009.<span class="Apple-style-span">Doubts</span> +<ul> +<li> Israël has the right to exist, live in peace. Palestinians do as well. That’s why a terrorist movement like the Hamas has no right to send missiles on Israeli cities. But Israel’s counter-attack will be ineffective against the Hamas, I’m afraid. The reason for this is the very structure of the Hamas. It’s a distributed group, and so is Al-Quaeda and in general, terrorist movements. You cannot fight against those structures with the usual means of warfare. Another thing I was at pain understanding for years was the seemingly anti-Israeli bias public opinions have all around the world. Some are outrightly manipulated for religious reasons. But some are not, and have nothing in the way of antisemitic views. In short the whole perception is the one of a reverse David vs. Goliath fight. There are several reasons for this. But something need to be done to come back to a more balanced view and more balanced ambitions from both sides. I hope, in this doubt section, that the Obama presidency could help.</li> +<li>I don’t think governments in general are taking the whole measure of the crisis (perhaps except the upcoming Obama administration). This is why 2009 will be painful. In several European countries, the political and generational gap, not to speak of the social inequalities that have been growing in a way this continent was accustomed to will sparkle riots, and lots of instability. It has already started in Greece.</li> +<li>European governments all buy into the too worn-off free market ideology. As we have come to understand, this is an ideology (and thus is a factor of danger) that has proven to be a failure, in the same way communism was a failure, allowing some happy few to benefit the system and generating lots of noise. Now don’t get me wrong: free market is a beautiful idea, (perhaps, some might argue, just like communism in the book was) but it is merely just this, an idea, and an economist’s traditional cornucopia of sorts. Now these governments seem to be too busy with exerting pressure on their own citizens by trying to control medias and the Internet than actually addressing people’s problems. They might actually be powerless in front of such a crisis, but they’re also unwilling to bring change to our societies, change that would make their own mental horizon change itself. The power of habits and customs….</li> +<li>On a different level, OOXML will continue to be pushed by Microsoft and marketed to everyone, governments included. That’s a trap many will fall into, but as you know there’s a way out: ODF. Meanwhile, the deception OOXML is should be fully advertised so that all can be warned.</li> +<li>Will Apple ever include ODF support in iWork? iWork 09 doesn’t seem to support it, but I might be wrong. TextEdit is not enough. </li> +<li>Software Patents will be pushed again and again in Europe. Contrary to my friend <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/";>Trond Arne Undheim</a>, I don’t think that ex-ante disclosure is that of a good thing: it is merely a much welcome, yet minimal, hygienic measure to an insane situation affecting the I.T. market and innovation.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Hopes</span> +<ul> +<li>OpenOffice.org will go out of traditional desktop application.  Perhaps not in 2009, but very likely later. I’ll go back on this in another future post, but you <a href="http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/";>can check this out</a>…</li> +<li>I have been a strong critic of Novell’s agreement of Microsoft, but there is one thing I have never denied and that would be how great <a href="http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/";>OpenSuse</a> is for a distribution. Now what’s both interesting and unfortunate with OpenSuse is that the Novell’s agreement with Microsoft does explicitely not apply to OpenSuse, and that the distribution really opened itself, as a project and as a platform on which to build on. So my legal question here is to check how much legally chaotic OpenSuse got. By welcoming everyone to contribute code, it might have created a situation where neither Novell, nor Microsoft could  exert any kind of pressure or FUD, as their own intellectual property (whatever that means) is now strongly diluted in packaged mess. </li> +<li>I love SecondLife, I really do. But sim crossing and avatar limits? Come on, get real, Linden Labs. Despite those shortcomings, I’m spending more and more times there. </li> +<li>ODF has already been adopted by 16 governments. My hope is to see that number double by the end of 2009.</li> +<li>All in all, I expect 2009 to be a year of crisis, but to be a year of positive change in the world. Or perhaps it will be a year of full-blown crisis. But even then, let’s all remember that the hour before dawn is the darkest time of the night…</li> +</ul> +<p>Happy new year to everyone!<span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=112&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_112" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p></p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/";>by Charles at January 07, 2009 10:56 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>January 06, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> @@ -456,30 +490,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> -GullFOSS</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_027";> -New: OOo-DEV 3.0 Developer Snapshot (build OOO300_m13) available</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev </b>build <b>OOO300_m13</b> which installs as OOo-DEV 3.0 has -been uploaded to the mirror network. OOO300 is the development branch for OppenOffice.org 3.0.1<br /><br />If -you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. If you think the -issue is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.<br /> <br />Please use the following link<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/300/index.html";>http://download.openoffice.org/300/index.html</a></p> - <p>When the Bouncer links don't work, please select one of the -<b>extended</b> mirrors at the following page ( <b>listed with an [E]</b> ) and -download the bits from the ".../extended/developer/OOO300_m13" directory:<br /><a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors";>http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors</a></p><a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors";></a> - <p> </p> - <p>MD5SUMS: -<br /><a title="Page containing MD5SUM checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/300/md5sums.html";>http://download.openoffice.org/300/md5sums.html</a></p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_027";>by Marcus Lange at December 11, 2008 03:54 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=1.1365&r2=1.1366 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-01-07 05:59:31+0000 1.1365 +++ opml.xml 2009-01-07 11:59:42+0000 1.1366 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:00:23 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:00:34 +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=1.588&r2=1.589 Delta lines: +26 -18 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-01-06 23:59:30+0000 1.588 +++ rss10.xml 2009-01-07 11:59:42+0000 1.589 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=606"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=949"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,35 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=925"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=613"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/12/11/protect-innovation-dont-use-proprietary-software-and-other-advent-niceties/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3bf70cd3d5faaef2" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: Doubts & Hopes</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/</link> + <content:encoded><p>This post is a follow-up of yesterday&#8217;s piece, <a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/">Predictions &amp; Resolutions</a>. Today I will list many things that do not relate to I.T. , some others that do. But in general, I&#8217;ll share what I&#8217;m mostly uncertain with for the year 2009.<span class="Apple-style-span">Doubts</span> +<ul> +<li> Israël has the right to exist, live in peace. Palestinians do as well. That&#8217;s why a terrorist movement like the Hamas has no right to send missiles on Israeli cities. But Israel&#8217;s counter-attack will be ineffective against the Hamas, I&#8217;m afraid. The reason for this is the very structure of the Hamas. It&#8217;s a distributed group, and so is Al-Quaeda and in general, terrorist movements. You cannot fight against those structures with the usual means of warfare. Another thing I was at pain understanding for years was the seemingly anti-Israeli bias public opinions have all around the world. Some are outrightly manipulated for religious reasons. But some are not, and have nothing in the way of antisemitic views. In short the whole perception is the one of a reverse David vs. Goliath fight. There are several reasons for this. But something need to be done to come back to a more balanced view and more balanced ambitions from both sides. I hope, in this doubt section, that the Obama presidency could help.</li> +<li>I don&#8217;t think governments in general are taking the whole measure of the crisis (perhaps except the upcoming Obama administration). This is why 2009 will be painful. In several European countries, the political and generational gap, not to speak of the social inequalities that have been growing in a way this continent was accustomed to will sparkle riots, and lots of instability. It has already started in Greece.</li> +<li>European governments all buy into the too worn-off free market ideology. As we have come to understand, this is an ideology (and thus is a factor of danger) that has proven to be a failure, in the same way communism was a failure, allowing some happy few to benefit the system and generating lots of noise. Now don&#8217;t get me wrong: free market is a beautiful idea, (perhaps, some might argue, just like communism in the book was) but it is merely just this, an idea, and an economist&#8217;s traditional cornucopia of sorts. Now these governments seem to be too busy with exerting pressure on their own citizens by trying to control medias and the Internet than actually addressing people&#8217;s problems. They might actually be powerless in front of such a crisis, but they&#8217;re also unwilling to bring change to our societies, change that would make their own mental horizon change itself. The power of habits and customs&#8230;.</li> +<li>On a different level, OOXML will continue to be pushed by Microsoft and marketed to everyone, governments included. That&#8217;s a trap many will fall into, but as you know there&#8217;s a way out: ODF. Meanwhile, the deception OOXML is should be fully advertised so that all can be warned.</li> +<li>Will Apple ever include ODF support in iWork? iWork 09 doesn&#8217;t seem to support it, but I might be wrong. TextEdit is not enough. </li> +<li>Software Patents will be pushed again and again in Europe. Contrary to my friend <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/">Trond Arne Undheim</a>, I don&#8217;t think that ex-ante disclosure is that of a good thing: it is merely a much welcome, yet minimal, hygienic measure to an insane situation affecting the I.T. market and innovation.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Hopes</span> +<ul> +<li>OpenOffice.org will go out of traditional desktop application.  Perhaps not in 2009, but very likely later. I&#8217;ll go back on this in another future post, but you <a href="http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/">can check this out</a>&#8230;</li> +<li>I have been a strong critic of Novell&#8217;s agreement of Microsoft, but there is one thing I have never denied and that would be how great <a href="http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/">OpenSuse</a> is for a distribution. Now what&#8217;s both interesting and unfortunate with OpenSuse is that the Novell&#8217;s agreement with Microsoft does explicitely not apply to OpenSuse, and that the distribution really opened itself, as a project and as a platform on which to build on. So my legal question here is to check how much legally chaotic OpenSuse got. By welcoming everyone to contribute code, it might have created a situation where neither Novell, nor Microsoft could  exert any kind of pressure or FUD, as their own intellectual property (whatever that means) is now strongly diluted in packaged mess. </li> +<li>I love SecondLife, I really do. But sim crossing and avatar limits? Come on, get real, Linden Labs. Despite those shortcomings, I&#8217;m spending more and more times there. </li> +<li>ODF has already been adopted by 16 governments. My hope is to see that number double by the end of 2009.</li> +<li>All in all, I expect 2009 to be a year of crisis, but to be a year of positive change in the world. Or perhaps it will be a year of full-blown crisis. But even then, let&#8217;s all remember that the hour before dawn is the darkest time of the night&#8230;</li> +</ul> +<p>Happy new year to everyone!<span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=112&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_112" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p></p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-01-07T10:56:07+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/";> <title>Charles Schulz: Predictions & Resolutions</title> <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</link> @@ -293,22 +318,5 @@ </p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-12-11T16:42:26+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3bf70cd3d5faaef2"> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.0 Developer Snapshot (build OOO300_m13) available</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_027</link> - <content:encoded><p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev </b>build <b>OOO300_m13</b> which installs as OOo-DEV 3.0 has -been uploaded to the mirror network. OOO300 is the development branch for OppenOffice.org 3.0.1<br /><br />If -you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. If you think the -issue is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.<br /> <br />Please use the following link<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/300/index.html">http://download.openoffice.org/300/index.html</a></p> - <p>When the Bouncer links don't work, please select one of the -<b>extended</b> mirrors at the following page ( <b>listed with an [E]</b> ) and -download the bits from the &quot;.../extended/developer/OOO300_m13&quot; directory:<br /><a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors">http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors</a></p><a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors"></a> - <p> </p> - <p>MD5SUMS: -<br /><a title="Page containing MD5SUM checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/300/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/300/md5sums.html</a></p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-12-11T15:54:39+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Marcus Lange</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.588&r2=1.589 Delta lines: +26 -17 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-01-06 23:59:31+0000 1.588 +++ rss20.xml 2009-01-07 11:59:42+0000 1.589 @@ -8,6 +8,32 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Doubts & Hopes</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/</link> + <description><p>This post is a follow-up of yesterday&#8217;s piece, <a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/">Predictions &amp; Resolutions</a>. Today I will list many things that do not relate to I.T. , some others that do. But in general, I&#8217;ll share what I&#8217;m mostly uncertain with for the year 2009.<span class="Apple-style-span">Doubts</span> +<ul> +<li> Israël has the right to exist, live in peace. Palestinians do as well. That&#8217;s why a terrorist movement like the Hamas has no right to send missiles on Israeli cities. But Israel&#8217;s counter-attack will be ineffective against the Hamas, I&#8217;m afraid. The reason for this is the very structure of the Hamas. It&#8217;s a distributed group, and so is Al-Quaeda and in general, terrorist movements. You cannot fight against those structures with the usual means of warfare. Another thing I was at pain understanding for years was the seemingly anti-Israeli bias public opinions have all around the world. Some are outrightly manipulated for religious reasons. But some are not, and have nothing in the way of antisemitic views. In short the whole perception is the one of a reverse David vs. Goliath fight. There are several reasons for this. But something need to be done to come back to a more balanced view and more balanced ambitions from both sides. I hope, in this doubt section, that the Obama presidency could help.</li> +<li>I don&#8217;t think governments in general are taking the whole measure of the crisis (perhaps except the upcoming Obama administration). This is why 2009 will be painful. In several European countries, the political and generational gap, not to speak of the social inequalities that have been growing in a way this continent was accustomed to will sparkle riots, and lots of instability. It has already started in Greece.</li> +<li>European governments all buy into the too worn-off free market ideology. As we have come to understand, this is an ideology (and thus is a factor of danger) that has proven to be a failure, in the same way communism was a failure, allowing some happy few to benefit the system and generating lots of noise. Now don&#8217;t get me wrong: free market is a beautiful idea, (perhaps, some might argue, just like communism in the book was) but it is merely just this, an idea, and an economist&#8217;s traditional cornucopia of sorts. Now these governments seem to be too busy with exerting pressure on their own citizens by trying to control medias and the Internet than actually addressing people&#8217;s problems. They might actually be powerless in front of such a crisis, but they&#8217;re also unwilling to bring change to our societies, change that would make their own mental horizon change itself. The power of habits and customs&#8230;.</li> +<li>On a different level, OOXML will continue to be pushed by Microsoft and marketed to everyone, governments included. That&#8217;s a trap many will fall into, but as you know there&#8217;s a way out: ODF. Meanwhile, the deception OOXML is should be fully advertised so that all can be warned.</li> +<li>Will Apple ever include ODF support in iWork? iWork 09 doesn&#8217;t seem to support it, but I might be wrong. TextEdit is not enough. </li> +<li>Software Patents will be pushed again and again in Europe. Contrary to my friend <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/">Trond Arne Undheim</a>, I don&#8217;t think that ex-ante disclosure is that of a good thing: it is merely a much welcome, yet minimal, hygienic measure to an insane situation affecting the I.T. market and innovation.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Hopes</span> +<ul> +<li>OpenOffice.org will go out of traditional desktop application.  Perhaps not in 2009, but very likely later. I&#8217;ll go back on this in another future post, but you <a href="http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/">can check this out</a>&#8230;</li> +<li>I have been a strong critic of Novell&#8217;s agreement of Microsoft, but there is one thing I have never denied and that would be how great <a href="http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/">OpenSuse</a> is for a distribution. Now what&#8217;s both interesting and unfortunate with OpenSuse is that the Novell&#8217;s agreement with Microsoft does explicitely not apply to OpenSuse, and that the distribution really opened itself, as a project and as a platform on which to build on. So my legal question here is to check how much legally chaotic OpenSuse got. By welcoming everyone to contribute code, it might have created a situation where neither Novell, nor Microsoft could  exert any kind of pressure or FUD, as their own intellectual property (whatever that means) is now strongly diluted in packaged mess. </li> +<li>I love SecondLife, I really do. But sim crossing and avatar limits? Come on, get real, Linden Labs. Despite those shortcomings, I&#8217;m spending more and more times there. </li> +<li>ODF has already been adopted by 16 governments. My hope is to see that number double by the end of 2009.</li> +<li>All in all, I expect 2009 to be a year of crisis, but to be a year of positive change in the world. Or perhaps it will be a year of full-blown crisis. But even then, let&#8217;s all remember that the hour before dawn is the darkest time of the night&#8230;</li> +</ul> +<p>Happy new year to everyone!<span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=112&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_112" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p></p></description> + <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:56:07 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Charles Schulz: Predictions & Resolutions</title> <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</guid> <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</link> @@ -281,23 +307,6 @@ </p></description> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:42:26 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.0 Developer Snapshot (build OOO300_m13) available</title> - <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3bf70cd3d5faaef2</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_027</link> - <description><p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev </b>build <b>OOO300_m13</b> which installs as OOo-DEV 3.0 has -been uploaded to the mirror network. OOO300 is the development branch for OppenOffice.org 3.0.1<br /><br />If -you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. If you think the -issue is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.<br /> <br />Please use the following link<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/300/index.html">http://download.openoffice.org/300/index.html</a></p> - <p>When the Bouncer links don't work, please select one of the -<b>extended</b> mirrors at the following page ( <b>listed with an [E]</b> ) and -download the bits from the &quot;.../extended/developer/OOO300_m13&quot; directory:<br /><a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors">http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors</a></p><a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors"></a> - <p> </p> - <p>MD5SUMS: -<br /><a title="Page containing MD5SUM checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/300/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/300/md5sums.html</a></p></description> - <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:54:39 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
