User: jpmcc Date: 2010-01-21 06:00:29+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 Thu Jan 21 07:00:12 CET 2010 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.2847&r2=1.2848 Delta lines: +74 -88 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2010-01-21 00:00:23+0000 1.2847 +++ atom.xml 2010-01-21 06:00:26+0000 1.2848 @@ -5,10 +5,67 @@ <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>2010-01-21T00:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-21T06:00:24+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">New: OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Release Candidate 3 (build OOO320_m10) available</title> + <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_22"/> + <id>http://www.instapaper.com/go/20545632</id> + <updated>2010-01-21T01:33:45+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"></content> + <author> + <name>Italo Vignoli</name> + <uri>http://www.italovignoli.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Going Open</title> + <subtitle type="html">marketing of open source software</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/> + <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id> + <updated>2010-01-21T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Where Shall OOoCon 2011 Meet?</title> + <link href="http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Where-Shall-OOoCon-2011-Meet"/> + <id>http://www.instapaper.com/go/20545394</id> + <updated>2010-01-21T01:30:12+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"></content> + <author> + <name>Italo Vignoli</name> + <uri>http://www.italovignoli.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Going Open</title> + <subtitle type="html">marketing of open source software</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/> + <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id> + <updated>2010-01-21T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">The Importance of Legal Innovation</title> + <link href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-01-20-032-35-NW-LL"/> + <id>http://www.instapaper.com/go/20545228</id> + <updated>2010-01-21T01:27:39+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"></content> + <author> + <name>Italo Vignoli</name> + <uri>http://www.italovignoli.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Going Open</title> + <subtitle type="html">marketing of open source software</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/> + <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id> + <updated>2010-01-21T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Free OpenOffice Calc tutorials â data pilot (pivot tables)</title> <link href="http://www.learnopenoffice.org/CalcTutorial33.htm"/> <id>http://www.instapaper.com/go/20437134</id> @@ -23,7 +80,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">marketing of open source software</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/> <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id> - 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<updated>2010-01-21T00:00:13+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-21T06:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -364,78 +421,7 @@ <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>2010-01-21T00:00:13+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m69) available</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x22"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/29e56ce505c6b792</id> - <updated>2010-01-08T09:02:36+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><b>Developer Snapshot build</b><b> OOo-Dev DEV300_m69</b> is available for download.</p> - <p>DEV300 is the development codeline for the upcoming OOo 3.x releases. The application will install as OOo-Dev 3.3.<br /></p> - <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system <a title="OpenOffice.org IssueTracker" href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html">IssueTracker</a>.<br /> </p> - <p>Please use the following download page:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/next">http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> - <p>Release Notes:<br /><a title="Release Notes" href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m69_snapshot.html">http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m69_snapshot.html</a><br /></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m69_md5sums.txt" title="Page containing MD5 checksums">http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m69_md5sums.txt</a></p></content> - <author> - <name>Joost Andrae</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>2010-01-21T00:00:15+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Number crunching</title> - <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/07/number-crunching/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=828</id> - <updated>2010-01-07T19:38:03+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>According to <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1567663/microsoft-announces-office-2010-pricing">The Inquirer</a>, Rachel Bondi, general manager of Microsoft Office, can scarcely contain her excitement at the number of people who are downloading the Microsoft Office 2010 beta:</p> -<blockquote><p>&#8220;it&#8217;s a rate of more than 40,000 downloads per day. That&#8217;s approximately twice the number of people who run the Boston Marathon each year, or the entire population of Olympia, WA, or Annapolis, MD, downloading the Office 2010 beta every day!&#8221;</p></blockquote> -<p>It&#8217;s also less than 20% of the number of people who <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">download OpenOffice.org</a> every day, based on the most conservative measure. Rachel, if that&#8217;s the best you can do for Microsoft in the 2010 office software stakes, I&#8217;d suggest you should get your CV up to date. I&#8217;d encourage your colleagues in Microsoft HR to get their skates on and recruit that <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/12/26/race-against-the-machine/">Linux and Open Office Compete Lead</a> &#8211; looks like they are badly needed.</p></content> - <author> - <name>John McCreesh</name> - <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> - <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-01-21T00:00:13+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?</title> - <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T17:37:26+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve, the &#8220;<a href="http://www.helpmysql.org">Help MySQL</a>&#8221; initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn&#8217;t somehow indecent. Let me explain.</p> -<p>What does &#8220;Help MySQL&#8221; advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be trapped in a market that would be pretty much controlled and captured by Oracle, both through its existing propietary databases offerings and the acquisition of MySQL. Another issue explained on the web site is that the inherent free and open source nature of MySQL will not be enough to grant effective freedoms to the market since Oracle would be the sole copyright owner of the code and trademarks.</p> -<p>I think I will not be the only one to notice that in a whooping twist of history, Monty Widenius explains us why the business and contribution model to MySQL he crafted himself since the beginning of the database company is terrible for customers. I am always quite skeptical of the &#8220;do as I say not as I do&#8221; lines of thinking, but so be it, let&#8217;s carry along. For months now, Monty and his interesting (and interested) acolyte, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller">Florian Mueller</a>, have been lobbying everything that seems to be possibly lobbied, from the press to the European Commission where they seemed to have been giving a hard time to Oracle, confused the European anti-trust with byzantine arguments leading to have MySQL relicensed under the BSD <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091021164738392">while portraying Microsoft as &#8220;understanding towards the Open Source ecosystem&#8221;</a>.</p> -<p>You might then ask, again, why would Monty want MySQL back, or separated from Oracle? What would Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL, and recently an advisor of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, counter Sun&#8217;s acquisition by Oracle after having left Sun as fast as he could have? There seems to be many reasons, at least on a personal level. One of them, as <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/">Jan Wildeboer outlined today</a>, might be that Monty just does not want to leave the command of MySQL. The problem is that the &#8220;competitive case&#8221; just does not seem to exist here. Not only can anyone fork MySQL (Monty already did it by the way), but the database market is competitive enough to have other credible incumbents fill in the gap, if Oracle were to become.. carnivorous, which remains to be proven. But there are other reasons, some of whose can be foreseen if one thinks about the possible outcomes of Oracle&#8217;s walking away from the merger at the end of the month. Sun Microsystems lost several of its most profitable and large customers with the globlal financial crisis. It is doubtful whether Sun could actually survive in the end. Sun would then be sold by chunks, and I cannot wait to see who would buy MySQL back&#8230; Monty Widenius, a fellow of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, and a man who describes the <em>asserted and patented monopoly </em>as being &#8220;benevolent and understanding towards Open Source&#8221;. There you go, I know you must feel reassured that MySQL will end up in good hands if it does fall in Oracle&#8217;s portfolio.</p> -<p>Sun Microsystems being sold in chunks, or being merged with Oracle raises a lot of questions that I &#8216;m not aware Monty Widenius ever addressed in a constructive way: What about Java, OpenOffice.org, and OpenSolaris (other examples might also be found)? I have not heard a word from Monty Widenius. The future of ODF does not seem to be very important, just like, in the same way, his new colleague at the Codeplex Foundation, Miguel de Icaza, seems to think. Perhaps the quest for another billion is too important and therefore Monty just hasn&#8217;t found the time to think and focus about other issues. By helping MySQL, it seems to me you are also helping the personal wealth of a billionaire who calls evil what some might do in the future while forgetting he did the same before.</p> -<p>All things considered, I am not really excited at the prospect of &#8220;saving MySQL&#8221;, and neither should you. For 2010, let&#8217;s rather focus on constructive conversations and projects.</p> -<p>Happy New Year 2010!</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=150&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_150" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></content> - <author> - <name>Charles Schulz</name> - <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings</title> - <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2010-01-19T12:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-21T06:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.2854&r2=1.2855 Delta lines: +44 -60 --------------------- --- index.html 2010-01-21 00:00:25+0000 1.2854 +++ index.html 2010-01-21 06:00:26+0000 1.2855 @@ -37,8 +37,51 @@ <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 21, 2010 12:00 AM CET</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 21, 2010 06:00 AM CET</em></p> +<h2>January 21, 2010</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.italovignoli.org"; title="Going Open"> +Italo Vignoli</a> : +<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_22";> +New: OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Release Candidate 3 (build OOO320_m10) available</a> +</h3> +<p> +</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_22";>by italovignoli at January 21, 2010 01:33 AM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.italovignoli.org"; title="Going Open"> +Italo Vignoli</a> : +<a href="http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Where-Shall-OOoCon-2011-Meet";> +Where Shall OOoCon 2011 Meet?</a> +</h3> +<p> +</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Where-Shall-OOoCon-2011-Meet";>by italovignoli at January 21, 2010 01:30 AM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.italovignoli.org"; title="Going Open"> +Italo Vignoli</a> : +<a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-01-20-032-35-NW-LL";> +The Importance of Legal Innovation</a> +</h3> +<p> +</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-01-20-032-35-NW-LL";>by italovignoli at January 21, 2010 01:27 AM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>January 20, 2010</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.italovignoli.org"; title="Going Open"> @@ -324,65 +367,6 @@ <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_x22";> -New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m69) available</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><b>Developer Snapshot build</b><b> OOo-Dev DEV300_m69</b> is available for download.</p> - <p>DEV300 is the development codeline for the upcoming OOo 3.x releases. The application will install as OOo-Dev 3.3.<br /></p> - <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system <a title="OpenOffice.org IssueTracker" href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html";>IssueTracker</a>.<br /> </p> - <p>Please use the following download page:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/next";>http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> - <p>Release Notes:<br /><a title="Release Notes" href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m69_snapshot.html";>http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m69_snapshot.html</a><br /></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m69_md5sums.txt"; title="Page containing MD5 checksums">http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m69_md5sums.txt</a></p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x22";>by Joost Andrae at January 08, 2010 09:02 AM CET</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>January 07, 2010</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> -John McCreesh</a> : -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/07/number-crunching/";> -Number crunching</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>According to <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1567663/microsoft-announces-office-2010-pricing";>The Inquirer</a>, Rachel Bondi, general manager of Microsoft Office, can scarcely contain her excitement at the number of people who are downloading the Microsoft Office 2010 beta:</p> -<blockquote><p>“it’s a rate of more than 40,000 downloads per day. That’s approximately twice the number of people who run the Boston Marathon each year, or the entire population of Olympia, WA, or Annapolis, MD, downloading the Office 2010 beta every day!”</p></blockquote> -<p>It’s also less than 20% of the number of people who <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html";>download OpenOffice.org</a> every day, based on the most conservative measure. Rachel, if that’s the best you can do for Microsoft in the 2010 office software stakes, I’d suggest you should get your CV up to date. I’d encourage your colleagues in Microsoft HR to get their skates on and recruit that <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/12/26/race-against-the-machine/";>Linux and Open Office Compete Lead</a> – looks like they are badly needed.</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/07/number-crunching/";>by John at January 07, 2010 07:38 PM CET</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>January 05, 2010</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/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/";> -Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the “<a href="http://www.helpmysql.org";>Help MySQL</a>” initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn’t somehow indecent. Let me explain.</p> -<p>What does “Help MySQL” advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be trapped in a market that would be pretty much controlled and captured by Oracle, both through its existing propietary databases offerings and the acquisition of MySQL. Another issue explained on the web site is that the inherent free and open source nature of MySQL will not be enough to grant effective freedoms to the market since Oracle would be the sole copyright owner of the code and trademarks.</p> -<p>I think I will not be the only one to notice that in a whooping twist of history, Monty Widenius explains us why the business and contribution model to MySQL he crafted himself since the beginning of the database company is terrible for customers. I am always quite skeptical of the “do as I say not as I do” lines of thinking, but so be it, let’s carry along. For months now, Monty and his interesting (and interested) acolyte, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller";>Florian Mueller</a>, have been lobbying everything that seems to be possibly lobbied, from the press to the European Commission where they seemed to have been giving a hard time to Oracle, confused the European anti-trust with byzantine arguments leading to have MySQL relicensed under the BSD <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091021164738392";>while portraying Microsoft as “understanding towards the Open Source ecosystem”</a>.</p> -<p>You might then ask, again, why would Monty want MySQL back, or separated from Oracle? What would Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL, and recently an advisor of the Microsoft’s Codeplex Foundation, counter Sun’s acquisition by Oracle after having left Sun as fast as he could have? There seems to be many reasons, at least on a personal level. One of them, as <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/";>Jan Wildeboer outlined today</a>, might be that Monty just does not want to leave the command of MySQL. The problem is that the “competitive case” just does not seem to exist here. Not only can anyone fork MySQL (Monty already did it by the way), but the database market is competitive enough to have other credible incumbents fill in the gap, if Oracle were to become.. carnivorous, which remains to be proven. But there are other reasons, some of whose can be foreseen if one thinks about the possible outcomes of Oracle’s walking away from the merger at the end of the month. Sun Microsystems lost several of its most profitable and large customers with the globlal financial crisis. It is doubtful whether Sun could actually survive in the end. Sun would then be sold by chunks, and I cannot wait to see who would buy MySQL back… Monty Widenius, a fellow of the Microsoft’s Codeplex Foundation, and a man who describes the <em>asserted and patented monopoly </em>as being “benevolent and understanding towards Open Source”. There you go, I know you must feel reassured that MySQL will end up in good hands if it does fall in Oracle’s portfolio.</p> -<p>Sun Microsystems being sold in chunks, or being merged with Oracle raises a lot of questions that I ‘m not aware Monty Widenius ever addressed in a constructive way: What about Java, OpenOffice.org, and OpenSolaris (other examples might also be found)? I have not heard a word from Monty Widenius. The future of ODF does not seem to be very important, just like, in the same way, his new colleague at the Codeplex Foundation, Miguel de Icaza, seems to think. Perhaps the quest for another billion is too important and therefore Monty just hasn’t found the time to think and focus about other issues. By helping MySQL, it seems to me you are also helping the personal wealth of a billionaire who calls evil what some might do in the future while forgetting he did the same before.</p> -<p>All things considered, I am not really excited at the prospect of “saving MySQL”, and neither should you. For 2010, let’s rather focus on constructive conversations and projects.</p> -<p>Happy New Year 2010!</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=150&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_150" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/";>by Charles at January 05, 2010 05:37 PM CET</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=1.2847&r2=1.2848 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2010-01-21 00:00:26+0000 1.2847 +++ opml.xml 2010-01-21 06:00:26+0000 1.2848 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:21 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:00:24 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.917&r2=1.918 Delta lines: +18 -37 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2010-01-20 18:00:29+0000 1.917 +++ rss10.xml 2010-01-21 06:00:26+0000 1.918 @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20545632"; /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20545394"; /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20545228"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20437134"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20437105"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20436542"; /> @@ -30,13 +33,25 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=523"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=833"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=830"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/29e56ce505c6b792" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=828"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20545632";> + <title>Italo Vignoli: New: OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Release Candidate 3 (build OOO320_m10) available</title> + <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_22</link> + <dc:date>2010-01-21T01:33:45+00:00</dc:date> +</item> +<item rdf:about="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20545394";> + <title>Italo Vignoli: Where Shall OOoCon 2011 Meet?</title> + <link>http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Where-Shall-OOoCon-2011-Meet</link> + <dc:date>2010-01-21T01:30:12+00:00</dc:date> +</item> +<item rdf:about="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20545228";> + <title>Italo Vignoli: The Importance of Legal Innovation</title> + <link>http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-01-20-032-35-NW-LL</link> + <dc:date>2010-01-21T01:27:39+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20437134";> <title>Italo Vignoli: Free OpenOffice Calc tutorials â data pilot (pivot tables)</title> <link>http://www.learnopenoffice.org/CalcTutorial33.htm</link> @@ -170,39 +185,5 @@ <em>p.s. the advert is of course still visible in <a href="http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:6rjsQvOqKOkJ:https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx%3Fjid%3D9914+%22Linux+and+Open+Office+Compete+Lead,+US+Subsidiary+%28CSI+Lead%29%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us">Google cache</a> <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </em></p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2010-01-08T15:33:55+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/29e56ce505c6b792"> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m69) available</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x22</link> - <content:encoded><p><b>Developer Snapshot build</b><b> OOo-Dev DEV300_m69</b> is available for download.</p> - <p>DEV300 is the development codeline for the upcoming OOo 3.x releases. The application will install as OOo-Dev 3.3.<br /></p> - <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system <a title="OpenOffice.org IssueTracker" href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html">IssueTracker</a>.<br /> </p> - <p>Please use the following download page:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/next">http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> - <p>Release Notes:<br /><a title="Release Notes" href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m69_snapshot.html">http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m69_snapshot.html</a><br /></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m69_md5sums.txt" title="Page containing MD5 checksums">http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m69_md5sums.txt</a></p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2010-01-08T09:02:36+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Joost Andrae</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=828";> - <title>John McCreesh: Number crunching</title> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/07/number-crunching/</link> - <content:encoded><p>According to <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1567663/microsoft-announces-office-2010-pricing">The Inquirer</a>, Rachel Bondi, general manager of Microsoft Office, can scarcely contain her excitement at the number of people who are downloading the Microsoft Office 2010 beta:</p> -<blockquote><p>&#8220;it&#8217;s a rate of more than 40,000 downloads per day. That&#8217;s approximately twice the number of people who run the Boston Marathon each year, or the entire population of Olympia, WA, or Annapolis, MD, downloading the Office 2010 beta every day!&#8221;</p></blockquote> -<p>It&#8217;s also less than 20% of the number of people who <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">download OpenOffice.org</a> every day, based on the most conservative measure. Rachel, if that&#8217;s the best you can do for Microsoft in the 2010 office software stakes, I&#8217;d suggest you should get your CV up to date. I&#8217;d encourage your colleagues in Microsoft HR to get their skates on and recruit that <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/12/26/race-against-the-machine/">Linux and Open Office Compete Lead</a> &#8211; looks like they are badly needed.</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2010-01-07T19:38:03+00:00</dc:date> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/";> - <title>Charles Schulz: Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?</title> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/</link> - <content:encoded><p>Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve, the &#8220;<a href="http://www.helpmysql.org">Help MySQL</a>&#8221; initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn&#8217;t somehow indecent. Let me explain.</p> -<p>What does &#8220;Help MySQL&#8221; advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be trapped in a market that would be pretty much controlled and captured by Oracle, both through its existing propietary databases offerings and the acquisition of MySQL. Another issue explained on the web site is that the inherent free and open source nature of MySQL will not be enough to grant effective freedoms to the market since Oracle would be the sole copyright owner of the code and trademarks.</p> -<p>I think I will not be the only one to notice that in a whooping twist of history, Monty Widenius explains us why the business and contribution model to MySQL he crafted himself since the beginning of the database company is terrible for customers. I am always quite skeptical of the &#8220;do as I say not as I do&#8221; lines of thinking, but so be it, let&#8217;s carry along. For months now, Monty and his interesting (and interested) acolyte, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller">Florian Mueller</a>, have been lobbying everything that seems to be possibly lobbied, from the press to the European Commission where they seemed to have been giving a hard time to Oracle, confused the European anti-trust with byzantine arguments leading to have MySQL relicensed under the BSD <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091021164738392">while portraying Microsoft as &#8220;understanding towards the Open Source ecosystem&#8221;</a>.</p> -<p>You might then ask, again, why would Monty want MySQL back, or separated from Oracle? What would Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL, and recently an advisor of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, counter Sun&#8217;s acquisition by Oracle after having left Sun as fast as he could have? There seems to be many reasons, at least on a personal level. One of them, as <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/">Jan Wildeboer outlined today</a>, might be that Monty just does not want to leave the command of MySQL. The problem is that the &#8220;competitive case&#8221; just does not seem to exist here. Not only can anyone fork MySQL (Monty already did it by the way), but the database market is competitive enough to have other credible incumbents fill in the gap, if Oracle were to become.. carnivorous, which remains to be proven. But there are other reasons, some of whose can be foreseen if one thinks about the possible outcomes of Oracle&#8217;s walking away from the merger at the end of the month. Sun Microsystems lost several of its most profitable and large customers with the globlal financial crisis. It is doubtful whether Sun could actually survive in the end. Sun would then be sold by chunks, and I cannot wait to see who would buy MySQL back&#8230; Monty Widenius, a fellow of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, and a man who describes the <em>asserted and patented monopoly </em>as being &#8220;benevolent and understanding towards Open Source&#8221;. There you go, I know you must feel reassured that MySQL will end up in good hands if it does fall in Oracle&#8217;s portfolio.</p> -<p>Sun Microsystems being sold in chunks, or being merged with Oracle raises a lot of questions that I &#8216;m not aware Monty Widenius ever addressed in a constructive way: What about Java, OpenOffice.org, and OpenSolaris (other examples might also be found)? I have not heard a word from Monty Widenius. The future of ODF does not seem to be very important, just like, in the same way, his new colleague at the Codeplex Foundation, Miguel de Icaza, seems to think. Perhaps the quest for another billion is too important and therefore Monty just hasn&#8217;t found the time to think and focus about other issues. By helping MySQL, it seems to me you are also helping the personal wealth of a billionaire who calls evil what some might do in the future while forgetting he did the same before.</p> -<p>All things considered, I am not really excited at the prospect of &#8220;saving MySQL&#8221;, and neither should you. For 2010, let&#8217;s rather focus on constructive conversations and projects.</p> -<p>Happy New Year 2010!</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=150&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_150" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2010-01-05T17:37:26+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.917&r2=1.918 Delta lines: +18 -36 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2010-01-20 18:00:30+0000 1.917 +++ rss20.xml 2010-01-21 06:00:27+0000 1.918 @@ -8,6 +8,24 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Italo Vignoli: New: OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Release Candidate 3 (build OOO320_m10) available</title> + <guid>http://www.instapaper.com/go/20545632</guid> + <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_22</link> + <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:33:45 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> + <title>Italo Vignoli: Where Shall OOoCon 2011 Meet?</title> + <guid>http://www.instapaper.com/go/20545394</guid> + <link>http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Where-Shall-OOoCon-2011-Meet</link> + <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:30:12 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> + <title>Italo Vignoli: The Importance of Legal Innovation</title> + <guid>http://www.instapaper.com/go/20545228</guid> + <link>http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-01-20-032-35-NW-LL</link> + <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:27:39 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Italo Vignoli: Free OpenOffice Calc tutorials â data pilot (pivot tables)</title> <guid>http://www.instapaper.com/go/20437134</guid> <link>http://www.learnopenoffice.org/CalcTutorial33.htm</link> @@ -155,42 +173,6 @@ <em>p.s. the advert is of course still visible in <a href="http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:6rjsQvOqKOkJ:https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx%3Fjid%3D9914+%22Linux+and+Open+Office+Compete+Lead,+US+Subsidiary+%28CSI+Lead%29%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us">Google cache</a> <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </em></p></description> <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:33:55 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m69) available</title> - <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/29e56ce505c6b792</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x22</link> - <description><p><b>Developer Snapshot build</b><b> OOo-Dev DEV300_m69</b> is available for download.</p> - <p>DEV300 is the development codeline for the upcoming OOo 3.x releases. The application will install as OOo-Dev 3.3.<br /></p> - <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system <a title="OpenOffice.org IssueTracker" href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html">IssueTracker</a>.<br /> </p> - <p>Please use the following download page:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/next">http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> - <p>Release Notes:<br /><a title="Release Notes" href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m69_snapshot.html">http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m69_snapshot.html</a><br /></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m69_md5sums.txt" title="Page containing MD5 checksums">http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m69_md5sums.txt</a></p></description> - <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:02:36 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>John McCreesh: Number crunching</title> - <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=828</guid> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/07/number-crunching/</link> - <description><p>According to <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1567663/microsoft-announces-office-2010-pricing">The Inquirer</a>, Rachel Bondi, general manager of Microsoft Office, can scarcely contain her excitement at the number of people who are downloading the Microsoft Office 2010 beta:</p> -<blockquote><p>&#8220;it&#8217;s a rate of more than 40,000 downloads per day. That&#8217;s approximately twice the number of people who run the Boston Marathon each year, or the entire population of Olympia, WA, or Annapolis, MD, downloading the Office 2010 beta every day!&#8221;</p></blockquote> -<p>It&#8217;s also less than 20% of the number of people who <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">download OpenOffice.org</a> every day, based on the most conservative measure. Rachel, if that&#8217;s the best you can do for Microsoft in the 2010 office software stakes, I&#8217;d suggest you should get your CV up to date. I&#8217;d encourage your colleagues in Microsoft HR to get their skates on and recruit that <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/12/26/race-against-the-machine/">Linux and Open Office Compete Lead</a> &#8211; looks like they are badly needed.</p></description> - <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:38:03 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>Charles Schulz: Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?</title> - <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/</guid> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/</link> - <description><p>Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve, the &#8220;<a href="http://www.helpmysql.org">Help MySQL</a>&#8221; initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn&#8217;t somehow indecent. Let me explain.</p> -<p>What does &#8220;Help MySQL&#8221; advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be trapped in a market that would be pretty much controlled and captured by Oracle, both through its existing propietary databases offerings and the acquisition of MySQL. Another issue explained on the web site is that the inherent free and open source nature of MySQL will not be enough to grant effective freedoms to the market since Oracle would be the sole copyright owner of the code and trademarks.</p> -<p>I think I will not be the only one to notice that in a whooping twist of history, Monty Widenius explains us why the business and contribution model to MySQL he crafted himself since the beginning of the database company is terrible for customers. I am always quite skeptical of the &#8220;do as I say not as I do&#8221; lines of thinking, but so be it, let&#8217;s carry along. For months now, Monty and his interesting (and interested) acolyte, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller">Florian Mueller</a>, have been lobbying everything that seems to be possibly lobbied, from the press to the European Commission where they seemed to have been giving a hard time to Oracle, confused the European anti-trust with byzantine arguments leading to have MySQL relicensed under the BSD <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091021164738392">while portraying Microsoft as &#8220;understanding towards the Open Source ecosystem&#8221;</a>.</p> -<p>You might then ask, again, why would Monty want MySQL back, or separated from Oracle? What would Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL, and recently an advisor of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, counter Sun&#8217;s acquisition by Oracle after having left Sun as fast as he could have? There seems to be many reasons, at least on a personal level. One of them, as <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/">Jan Wildeboer outlined today</a>, might be that Monty just does not want to leave the command of MySQL. The problem is that the &#8220;competitive case&#8221; just does not seem to exist here. Not only can anyone fork MySQL (Monty already did it by the way), but the database market is competitive enough to have other credible incumbents fill in the gap, if Oracle were to become.. carnivorous, which remains to be proven. But there are other reasons, some of whose can be foreseen if one thinks about the possible outcomes of Oracle&#8217;s walking away from the merger at the end of the month. Sun Microsystems lost several of its most profitable and large customers with the globlal financial crisis. It is doubtful whether Sun could actually survive in the end. Sun would then be sold by chunks, and I cannot wait to see who would buy MySQL back&#8230; Monty Widenius, a fellow of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, and a man who describes the <em>asserted and patented monopoly </em>as being &#8220;benevolent and understanding towards Open Source&#8221;. There you go, I know you must feel reassured that MySQL will end up in good hands if it does fall in Oracle&#8217;s portfolio.</p> -<p>Sun Microsystems being sold in chunks, or being merged with Oracle raises a lot of questions that I &#8216;m not aware Monty Widenius ever addressed in a constructive way: What about Java, OpenOffice.org, and OpenSolaris (other examples might also be found)? I have not heard a word from Monty Widenius. The future of ODF does not seem to be very important, just like, in the same way, his new colleague at the Codeplex Foundation, Miguel de Icaza, seems to think. Perhaps the quest for another billion is too important and therefore Monty just hasn&#8217;t found the time to think and focus about other issues. By helping MySQL, it seems to me you are also helping the personal wealth of a billionaire who calls evil what some might do in the future while forgetting he did the same before.</p> -<p>All things considered, I am not really excited at the prospect of &#8220;saving MySQL&#8221;, and neither should you. 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