User: jpmcc   
Date: 2009-04-13 05:01:41+0000
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+       <entry>
+               <title type="html">Anti patent day in Munich</title>
+               <link 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/04/anti-patent-day-in-munich.html"/>
+               
<id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-6095230073761259370</id>
+               <updated>2009-04-13T03:24:11+00:00</updated>
+               <content type="html">On April 15th, there's an anti patent day 
in Munich. Read more about it at &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.floschi.info/2009/04/april-15th-anti-patent-day-in-munich-rms-will-speak/&quot;&gt;Floschi's
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height=&quot;1&quot; 
src=&quot;http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-6095230073761259370?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>
+               <author>
+                       <name>floeff</name>
+                       <email>[email protected]</email>
+                       <uri>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/</uri>
+               </author>
+               <source>
+                       <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title>
+                       <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>2009-04-13T05:00:20+00:00</updated>
+               </source>
+       </entry>
+
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                <title type="html">PC Mag’s OpenOffice Tips</title>
                <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1101"/>
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                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id>
-                       <updated>2009-04-12T23:00:20+00:00</updated>
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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>2009-04-12T23:00:20+00:00</updated>
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<id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id>
-                       <updated>2009-04-12T23:00:16+00:00</updated>
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                        <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google 
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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>2009-04-12T23:00:16+00:00</updated>
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                        <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google 
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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>2009-04-12T23:00:16+00:00</updated>
-               </source>
-       </entry>
-
-       <entry xml:lang="en">
-               <title type="html">UK’s Guardian on Open Source Apps</title>
-               <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1066"/>
-               <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1066</id>
-               <updated>2009-03-20T14:12:36+00:00</updated>
-               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;The Guardian publishes &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/12/open-source-apps&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Open
 Source Apps are No Small Free Beer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, analyzing how their 
free cost is leading to a major boost in interest during this great 
downturn.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;There cannot be a corner of the industrialised 
world that doesn&amp;#8217;t rely on some form of free software. But free 
software, and the open source movement it inspired, has so far affected mostly 
the back-end world of servers and databases, or taken over from software, like 
the web browser, that was already available at zero 
cost.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Until now, suggests the Guardian, looking specifically at 
OpenOffice.org:&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Take OpenOffice, the leading alternative to a 
paid-for &amp;#8220;proprietary&amp;#8221; software application. As the 
downturn started, its download figures began to rocket. According to Oregon 
State University, since it launched its third version in mid-October, 
OpenOffice has been downloaded more than 42m times. That&amp;#8217;s roughly 
four times (3.75) every second.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Recent efforts have been made to analyze usage share of OpenOffice to 
see whether it is displacing users from Microsoft Office.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;In November, the US analyst &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://bit.ly/open2&quot;&gt;Clickstream reported&lt;/a&gt; 
(http://bit.ly/open2) that 5% of internet users used OpenOffice in the last six 
months. By comparison, 51% used Microsoft Office, suggesting that Microsoft had 
10 times as many users as OpenOffice. But this also suggests that 
Microsoft&amp;#8217;s dominance could be declining, as three years ago it 
enjoyed 95% of the market.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Not only is OpenOffice showing strongly in  competition with MSO, 
but this information also shows MSO has a much lower usage than many IT 
analysts assume, if only half of internet users are opening it in a six-month 
period.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;In the public sector, for governments around the world, OpenOffice is 
proving to be even more popular.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;From Birmingham to Brussels, local and regional 
governments are switching to OpenOffice in a bid to confront the hegemony of 
Microsoft. &amp;#8220;The idea of using open source software not originated by 
an American multinational corporation seems to go down particularly well in the 
French public service,&amp;#8221; says John McCreesh, marketing project lead of 
OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</content>
-               <author>
-                       <name>Benjamin Horst</name>
-                       <uri>http://www.solidoffice.com</uri>
-               </author>
-               <source>
-                       <title type="html">SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org</title>
-                       <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to 
OpenOffice.org</subtitle>
-                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/>
-                       
<id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id>
-                       <updated>2009-04-10T23:00:24+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2009-04-13T05:00:15+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 

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 </div>
 
-<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: April 12, 2009 11:00 PM 
GMT</em></p>
+<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: April 13, 2009 05:00 AM 
GMT</em></p>
 
+<h2>April 13, 2009</h2>
+<h3>
+<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing 
Blog">
+OOo Marketeers</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
+<a 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/04/anti-patent-day-in-munich.html";>
+Anti patent day in Munich</a>
+</h3>
+<p>
+On April 15th, there's an anti patent day in Munich. Read more about it at <a 
href="http://www.floschi.info/2009/04/april-15th-anti-patent-day-in-munich-rms-will-speak/";>Floschi's
 Blog</a>.<div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" 
height="1" 
src="http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-6095230073761259370?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com";
 /></div></p>
+<p>
+<em><a 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/04/anti-patent-day-in-munich.html";>by
 floeff ([email protected]) at April 13, 2009 03:24 AM BST</a></em>
+</p>
+<br />
+<hr />
+<br />
 <h2>April 09, 2009</h2>
 <h3>
 <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org">
@@ -511,29 +526,6 @@
 <br />
 <hr />
 <br />
-<h2>March 20, 2009</h2>
-<h3>
-<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org">
-Benjamin Horst</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
-<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1066";>
-UK’s Guardian on Open Source Apps</a>
-</h3>
-<p>
-<p>The Guardian publishes <a 
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/12/open-source-apps";><em>Open
 Source Apps are No Small Free Beer</em></a>, analyzing how their free cost is 
leading to a major boost in interest during this great downturn.</p>
-<blockquote><p>There cannot be a corner of the industrialised world that 
doesn&#8217;t rely on some form of free software. But free software, and the 
open source movement it inspired, has so far affected mostly the back-end world 
of servers and databases, or taken over from software, like the web browser, 
that was already available at zero cost.</p></blockquote>
-<p>Until now, suggests the Guardian, looking specifically at 
OpenOffice.org:</p>
-<blockquote><p>Take OpenOffice, the leading alternative to a paid-for 
&#8220;proprietary&#8221; software application. As the downturn started, its 
download figures began to rocket. According to Oregon State University, since 
it launched its third version in mid-October, OpenOffice has been downloaded 
more than 42m times. That&#8217;s roughly four times (3.75) every 
second.</p></blockquote>
-<p>Recent efforts have been made to analyze usage share of OpenOffice to see 
whether it is displacing users from Microsoft Office.</p>
-<blockquote><p>In November, the US analyst <a 
href="http://bit.ly/open2";>Clickstream reported</a> (http://bit.ly/open2) that 
5% of internet users used OpenOffice in the last six months. By comparison, 51% 
used Microsoft Office, suggesting that Microsoft had 10 times as many users as 
OpenOffice. But this also suggests that Microsoft&#8217;s dominance could be 
declining, as three years ago it enjoyed 95% of the market.</p></blockquote>
-<p>Not only is OpenOffice showing strongly in  competition with MSO, but this 
information also shows MSO has a much lower usage than many IT analysts assume, 
if only half of internet users are opening it in a six-month period.</p>
-<p>In the public sector, for governments around the world, OpenOffice is 
proving to be even more popular.</p>
-<blockquote><p>From Birmingham to Brussels, local and regional governments are 
switching to OpenOffice in a bid to confront the hegemony of Microsoft. 
&#8220;The idea of using open source software not originated by an American 
multinational corporation seems to go down particularly well in the French 
public service,&#8221; says John McCreesh, marketing project lead of 
OpenOffice.org.</p></blockquote></p>
-<p>
-<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1066";>by Benjamin Horst at 
March 20, 2009 02:12 PM GMT</a></em>
-</p>
-<br />
-<hr />
-<br />
 <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a>
 <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those 
 of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the 

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        <head>
                <title>Marketing Planet</title>
-               <dateModified>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:00:23 +0000</dateModified>
+               <dateModified>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:00:22 +0000</dateModified>
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+++ rss10.xml   2009-04-13 05:01:38+0000        1.702
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+<item 
rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-6095230073761259370">
+       <title>OOo Marketeers: Anti patent day in Munich</title>
+       
<link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/04/anti-patent-day-in-munich.html</link>
+       <content:encoded>On April 15th, there's an anti patent day in Munich. 
Read more about it at &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.floschi.info/2009/04/april-15th-anti-patent-day-in-munich-rms-will-speak/&quot;&gt;Floschi's
 Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div 
class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; 
height=&quot;1&quot; 
src=&quot;http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-6095230073761259370?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
+       <dc:date>2009-04-13T03:24:11+00:00</dc:date>
+       <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator>
+</item>
 <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1101";>
        <title>Benjamin Horst: PC Mag’s OpenOffice Tips</title>
        <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1101</link>
@@ -352,19 +359,5 @@
        <dc:date>2009-03-22T18:08:09+00:00</dc:date>
        <dc:creator>Marcus Lange</dc:creator>
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-<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1066";>
-       <title>Benjamin Horst: UK’s Guardian on Open Source Apps</title>
-       <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1066</link>
-       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The Guardian publishes &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/12/open-source-apps&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Open
 Source Apps are No Small Free Beer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, analyzing how their 
free cost is leading to a major boost in interest during this great 
downturn.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;There cannot be a corner of the industrialised 
world that doesn&amp;#8217;t rely on some form of free software. But free 
software, and the open source movement it inspired, has so far affected mostly 
the back-end world of servers and databases, or taken over from software, like 
the web browser, that was already available at zero 
cost.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Until now, suggests the Guardian, looking specifically at 
OpenOffice.org:&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Take OpenOffice, the leading alternative to a 
paid-for &amp;#8220;proprietary&amp;#8221; software application. As the 
downturn started, its download figures began to rocket. According to Oregon 
State University, since it launched its third version in mid-October, 
OpenOffice has been downloaded more than 42m times. That&amp;#8217;s roughly 
four times (3.75) every second.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Recent efforts have been made to analyze usage share of OpenOffice to 
see whether it is displacing users from Microsoft Office.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;In November, the US analyst &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://bit.ly/open2&quot;&gt;Clickstream reported&lt;/a&gt; 
(http://bit.ly/open2) that 5% of internet users used OpenOffice in the last six 
months. By comparison, 51% used Microsoft Office, suggesting that Microsoft had 
10 times as many users as OpenOffice. But this also suggests that 
Microsoft&amp;#8217;s dominance could be declining, as three years ago it 
enjoyed 95% of the market.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Not only is OpenOffice showing strongly in  competition with MSO, 
but this information also shows MSO has a much lower usage than many IT 
analysts assume, if only half of internet users are opening it in a six-month 
period.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;In the public sector, for governments around the world, OpenOffice is 
proving to be even more popular.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;From Birmingham to Brussels, local and regional 
governments are switching to OpenOffice in a bid to confront the hegemony of 
Microsoft. &amp;#8220;The idea of using open source software not originated by 
an American multinational corporation seems to go down particularly well in the 
French public service,&amp;#8221; says John McCreesh, marketing project lead of 
OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</content:encoded>
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        <description>Marketing Planet - 
http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description>
 
 <item>
+       <title>OOo Marketeers: Anti patent day in Munich</title>
+       
<guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-6095230073761259370</guid>
+       
<link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/04/anti-patent-day-in-munich.html</link>
+       <description>On April 15th, there's an anti patent day in Munich. Read 
more about it at &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.floschi.info/2009/04/april-15th-anti-patent-day-in-munich-rms-will-speak/&quot;&gt;Floschi's
 Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div 
class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; 
height=&quot;1&quot; 
src=&quot;http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-6095230073761259370?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
+       <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
+       <author>[email protected] (floeff)</author>
+</item>
+<item>
        <title>Benjamin Horst: PC Mag’s OpenOffice Tips</title>
        <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1101</guid>
        <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1101</link>
@@ -336,21 +344,6 @@
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title=&quot;Download page&quot; 
href=&quot;http://download.openoffice.org/next&quot;&gt;http://download.openoffice.org/next&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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-       <title>Benjamin Horst: UK’s Guardian on Open Source Apps</title>
-       <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1066</guid>
-       <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1066</link>
-       <description>&lt;p&gt;The Guardian publishes &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/12/open-source-apps&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Open
 Source Apps are No Small Free Beer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, analyzing how their 
free cost is leading to a major boost in interest during this great 
downturn.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;There cannot be a corner of the industrialised 
world that doesn&amp;#8217;t rely on some form of free software. But free 
software, and the open source movement it inspired, has so far affected mostly 
the back-end world of servers and databases, or taken over from software, like 
the web browser, that was already available at zero 
cost.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Until now, suggests the Guardian, looking specifically at 
OpenOffice.org:&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Take OpenOffice, the leading alternative to a 
paid-for &amp;#8220;proprietary&amp;#8221; software application. As the 
downturn started, its download figures began to rocket. According to Oregon 
State University, since it launched its third version in mid-October, 
OpenOffice has been downloaded more than 42m times. That&amp;#8217;s roughly 
four times (3.75) every second.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Recent efforts have been made to analyze usage share of OpenOffice to 
see whether it is displacing users from Microsoft Office.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;In November, the US analyst &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://bit.ly/open2&quot;&gt;Clickstream reported&lt;/a&gt; 
(http://bit.ly/open2) that 5% of internet users used OpenOffice in the last six 
months. By comparison, 51% used Microsoft Office, suggesting that Microsoft had 
10 times as many users as OpenOffice. But this also suggests that 
Microsoft&amp;#8217;s dominance could be declining, as three years ago it 
enjoyed 95% of the market.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Not only is OpenOffice showing strongly in  competition with MSO, 
but this information also shows MSO has a much lower usage than many IT 
analysts assume, if only half of internet users are opening it in a six-month 
period.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;In the public sector, for governments around the world, OpenOffice is 
proving to be even more popular.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;From Birmingham to Brussels, local and regional 
governments are switching to OpenOffice in a bid to confront the hegemony of 
Microsoft. &amp;#8220;The idea of using open source software not originated by 
an American multinational corporation seems to go down particularly well in the 
French public service,&amp;#8221; says John McCreesh, marketing project lead of 
OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
-       <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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