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Log: Planet run at Fri Jan 29 01:00:12 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=1.2878&r2=1.2879 Delta lines: +31 -33 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2010-01-28 18:00:35+0000 1.2878 +++ atom.xml 2010-01-29 00:00:28+0000 1.2879 @@ -5,9 +5,34 @@ <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>2010-01-28T18:00:32+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-29T00:00:26+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Sun gets a new sales department, Apple releases a nice picture frame with DRM</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/</id> + <updated>2010-01-28T18:05:14+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><ul> +<li>So it happened. Oracle has swallowed Sun Microsystems. Monty should have gotten the news by now. Perhaps he could even be interested by the announcements of Oracle? They&#8217;re hiring good sales reps. More seriously, the <a href="http://www.oracle.com/events/productstrategy/index.html#hardware">announcements done through webcasts and available on the Oracle website</a> are very impressive, product-wise and strategy-wise. Better server offerings, more powerful hardware, Java continued, OpenDocument Format praised. If Oracle executes what they just announced, we might actually end up having FUN, with capital letters. On the <a href="http://oracle.com.edgesuite.net/ivt/4000/8104/9236/12637/lobby_external_flash_clean_480x360/default.htm">specific chapter of OpenOffice.org</a>, an ODF-based, online version of OpenOffice.org has been announced and my small finger tells me that it&#8217;s going to be a very good surprize. What remains to be seen, of course, is whether Oracle will find this strategy to be profitable enough. They have discussed investments so far, but one should also expect the cost cutting part of the equation. Another thing that worries me is the lack of clear emphasis on Free &amp; Open Source. I hear &#8220;Open Systems&#8221;, &#8220;Open Standards&#8221; and &#8220;Open everything&#8221;. But the tough part will also be in the governance of existing Free and Open Source projects. This being said, I have to stress how pleased I have been by what I heard and watched so far. So pleased, in fact, that it seems to me that Oracle has ended up merging with Sun, more than merely acquiring it. The result might very well end up being Sun on steroids, or Sun with a new sales department and a serious database offering that Monty hates. Good luck and congratulations!</li> +<li>What I have not enjoyed was the presentation of Apple&#8217;s iPad. To be sure, it&#8217;s a nice device, and I understand that it&#8217;s not being advertised as some sort of netbook or affordable MacBook. It&#8217;s actually a very nice device, looking like a beautiful picture frame. The inherent weakness is that it strikes me as a more powerful iPhone. The smart part of that story is that Apple is essentially offering easy and elegant Internet browsing to anyone by minimizing its own costs and risk taking. The bad part is that the iPad is riddled with DRM, and that you are essentially locked up in Apple&#8217;s infamous App Store. In short, it&#8217;s a device letting you browse the Internet as long as Apple wants it, depriving you of your most basic digital freedoms. I do not think that it will pay and that in the end, sole consumer&#8217;s satisfaction induced by very powerful marketing and excellent user experience will be enough. Other competitors will eventually be &#8220;as good&#8221; as Apple, with less restrictions and less of that Diva-like behaviour, which is another way to write the words &#8220;anti-competitive&#8221; and &#8220;proprietary&#8221;.</li> +</ul> +<p>We are in the end of January 2010: Sun just disappeared, Apple re-releases its Newton. Happy future, everyone.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=156&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_156" 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>2010-01-29T00:00:14+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry> <title type="html">New: OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Release Candidate 4 (build OOO320_m11) available</title> <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_23"/> @@ -26,7 +51,7 @@ <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>2010-01-28T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-29T00:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -47,7 +72,7 @@ <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>2010-01-28T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-29T00:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -185,7 +210,7 @@ <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>2010-01-26T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-29T00:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -212,7 +237,7 @@ <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>2010-01-28T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-29T00:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -291,7 +316,7 @@ <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>2010-01-28T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-29T00:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -405,31 +430,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">User Experience F2F Day Two</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/user_experience_f2f_day_two"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/c5561009aa8c4666</id> - <updated>2010-01-18T11:49:28+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p> </p> - <p>Please read Christoph Noack's <a href="http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2010/01/ux-meeting-in-hamburg-day-two.html">second blog posting</a> on his visit in Hamburg, which he begins with:<br /></p> - <p>&quot;This is my second â and last â posting which covers my two days stay âUX meeting in Hamburgâ. <a href="http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2010/01/ux-meeting-in-hamburg-day-one.html">In the last posting</a>, -I've talked about non-disruptive messages and the common goal for -OpenOffice.org. Now, we will have a look at Impress and the printing -improvements.&quot;</p> - <p> BTW<br />It seems from the comments I got and notes I read on the list, that we humans are indeed more pleased to be F2F than only bits and bytes. ;-)</p> - <p>Kind regards,</p> - <p>Liz </p> - <p><br /> </p></content> - <author> - <name>Elizabeth Matthis</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>2010-01-28T18:00:16+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.2885&r2=1.2886 Delta lines: +22 -25 --------------------- --- index.html 2010-01-28 18:00:35+0000 1.2885 +++ index.html 2010-01-29 00:00:29+0000 1.2886 @@ -37,8 +37,29 @@ <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 28, 2010 06:00 PM CET</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 29, 2010 12:00 AM CET</em></p> +<h2>January 28, 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/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/";> +Sun gets a new sales department, Apple releases a nice picture frame with DRM</a> +</h3> +<p> +<ul> +<li>So it happened. Oracle has swallowed Sun Microsystems. Monty should have gotten the news by now. Perhaps he could even be interested by the announcements of Oracle? They’re hiring good sales reps. More seriously, the <a href="http://www.oracle.com/events/productstrategy/index.html#hardware";>announcements done through webcasts and available on the Oracle website</a> are very impressive, product-wise and strategy-wise. Better server offerings, more powerful hardware, Java continued, OpenDocument Format praised. If Oracle executes what they just announced, we might actually end up having FUN, with capital letters. On the <a href="http://oracle.com.edgesuite.net/ivt/4000/8104/9236/12637/lobby_external_flash_clean_480x360/default.htm";>specific chapter of OpenOffice.org</a>, an ODF-based, online version of OpenOffice.org has been announced and my small finger tells me that it’s going to be a very good surprize. What remains to be seen, of course, is whether Oracle will find this strategy to be profitable enough. They have discussed investments so far, but one should also expect the cost cutting part of the equation. Another thing that worries me is the lack of clear emphasis on Free & Open Source. I hear “Open Systems”, “Open Standards” and “Open everything”. But the tough part will also be in the governance of existing Free and Open Source projects. This being said, I have to stress how pleased I have been by what I heard and watched so far. So pleased, in fact, that it seems to me that Oracle has ended up merging with Sun, more than merely acquiring it. The result might very well end up being Sun on steroids, or Sun with a new sales department and a serious database offering that Monty hates. Good luck and congratulations!</li> +<li>What I have not enjoyed was the presentation of Apple’s iPad. To be sure, it’s a nice device, and I understand that it’s not being advertised as some sort of netbook or affordable MacBook. It’s actually a very nice device, looking like a beautiful picture frame. The inherent weakness is that it strikes me as a more powerful iPhone. The smart part of that story is that Apple is essentially offering easy and elegant Internet browsing to anyone by minimizing its own costs and risk taking. The bad part is that the iPad is riddled with DRM, and that you are essentially locked up in Apple’s infamous App Store. In short, it’s a device letting you browse the Internet as long as Apple wants it, depriving you of your most basic digital freedoms. I do not think that it will pay and that in the end, sole consumer’s satisfaction induced by very powerful marketing and excellent user experience will be enough. Other competitors will eventually be “as good” as Apple, with less restrictions and less of that Diva-like behaviour, which is another way to write the words “anti-competitive” and “proprietary”.</li> +</ul> +<p>We are in the end of January 2010: Sun just disappeared, Apple re-releases its Newton. Happy future, everyone.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=156&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_156" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/";>by Charles at January 28, 2010 06:05 PM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>January 27, 2010</h2> <h3> <a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> @@ -351,30 +372,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>January 18, 2010</h2> -<h3> -<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> -GullFOSS</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/user_experience_f2f_day_two";> -User Experience F2F Day Two</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p> </p> - <p>Please read Christoph Noack's <a href="http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2010/01/ux-meeting-in-hamburg-day-two.html";>second blog posting</a> on his visit in Hamburg, which he begins with:<br /></p> - <p>"This is my second â and last â posting which covers my two days stay âUX meeting in Hamburgâ. <a href="http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2010/01/ux-meeting-in-hamburg-day-one.html";>In the last posting</a>, -I've talked about non-disruptive messages and the common goal for -OpenOffice.org. Now, we will have a look at Impress and the printing -improvements."</p> - <p> BTW<br />It seems from the comments I got and notes I read on the list, that we humans are indeed more pleased to be F2F than only bits and bytes. ;-)</p> - <p>Kind regards,</p> - <p>Liz </p> - <p><br /> </p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/user_experience_f2f_day_two";>by Elizabeth Matthis at January 18, 2010 11:49 AM 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=1.2878&r2=1.2879 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2010-01-28 18:00:36+0000 1.2878 +++ opml.xml 2010-01-29 00:00:29+0000 1.2879 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:00:32 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:26 +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=1.924&r2=1.925 Delta lines: +13 -17 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2010-01-28 12:00:24+0000 1.924 +++ rss10.xml 2010-01-29 00:00:29+0000 1.925 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/29f5d5a99de3dbb7" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/2d79176e50fd594e" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20962104"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,22 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20436542"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20436381"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=2104"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/c5561009aa8c4666" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: Sun gets a new sales department, Apple releases a nice picture frame with DRM</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/</link> + <content:encoded><ul> +<li>So it happened. Oracle has swallowed Sun Microsystems. Monty should have gotten the news by now. Perhaps he could even be interested by the announcements of Oracle? They&#8217;re hiring good sales reps. More seriously, the <a href="http://www.oracle.com/events/productstrategy/index.html#hardware">announcements done through webcasts and available on the Oracle website</a> are very impressive, product-wise and strategy-wise. Better server offerings, more powerful hardware, Java continued, OpenDocument Format praised. If Oracle executes what they just announced, we might actually end up having FUN, with capital letters. On the <a href="http://oracle.com.edgesuite.net/ivt/4000/8104/9236/12637/lobby_external_flash_clean_480x360/default.htm">specific chapter of OpenOffice.org</a>, an ODF-based, online version of OpenOffice.org has been announced and my small finger tells me that it&#8217;s going to be a very good surprize. What remains to be seen, of course, is whether Oracle will find this strategy to be profitable enough. They have discussed investments so far, but one should also expect the cost cutting part of the equation. Another thing that worries me is the lack of clear emphasis on Free &amp; Open Source. I hear &#8220;Open Systems&#8221;, &#8220;Open Standards&#8221; and &#8220;Open everything&#8221;. But the tough part will also be in the governance of existing Free and Open Source projects. This being said, I have to stress how pleased I have been by what I heard and watched so far. So pleased, in fact, that it seems to me that Oracle has ended up merging with Sun, more than merely acquiring it. The result might very well end up being Sun on steroids, or Sun with a new sales department and a serious database offering that Monty hates. Good luck and congratulations!</li> +<li>What I have not enjoyed was the presentation of Apple&#8217;s iPad. To be sure, it&#8217;s a nice device, and I understand that it&#8217;s not being advertised as some sort of netbook or affordable MacBook. It&#8217;s actually a very nice device, looking like a beautiful picture frame. The inherent weakness is that it strikes me as a more powerful iPhone. The smart part of that story is that Apple is essentially offering easy and elegant Internet browsing to anyone by minimizing its own costs and risk taking. The bad part is that the iPad is riddled with DRM, and that you are essentially locked up in Apple&#8217;s infamous App Store. In short, it&#8217;s a device letting you browse the Internet as long as Apple wants it, depriving you of your most basic digital freedoms. I do not think that it will pay and that in the end, sole consumer&#8217;s satisfaction induced by very powerful marketing and excellent user experience will be enough. Other competitors will eventually be &#8220;as good&#8221; as Apple, with less restrictions and less of that Diva-like behaviour, which is another way to write the words &#8220;anti-competitive&#8221; and &#8220;proprietary&#8221;.</li> +</ul> +<p>We are in the end of January 2010: Sun just disappeared, Apple re-releases its Newton. Happy future, everyone.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=156&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_156" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-01-28T18:05:14+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/29f5d5a99de3dbb7"> <title>GullFOSS: New: OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Release Candidate 4 (build OOO320_m11) available</title> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_23</link> @@ -182,21 +194,5 @@ <!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content:encoded> <dc:date>2010-01-19T09:57:41+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/c5561009aa8c4666"> - <title>GullFOSS: User Experience F2F Day Two</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/user_experience_f2f_day_two</link> - <content:encoded><p> </p> - <p>Please read Christoph Noack's <a href="http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2010/01/ux-meeting-in-hamburg-day-two.html">second blog posting</a> on his visit in Hamburg, which he begins with:<br /></p> - <p>&quot;This is my second â and last â posting which covers my two days stay âUX meeting in Hamburgâ. <a href="http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2010/01/ux-meeting-in-hamburg-day-one.html">In the last posting</a>, -I've talked about non-disruptive messages and the common goal for -OpenOffice.org. Now, we will have a look at Impress and the printing -improvements.&quot;</p> - <p> BTW<br />It seems from the comments I got and notes I read on the list, that we humans are indeed more pleased to be F2F than only bits and bytes. ;-)</p> - <p>Kind regards,</p> - <p>Liz </p> - <p><br /> </p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2010-01-18T11:49:28+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Elizabeth Matthis</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.924&r2=1.925 Delta lines: +13 -16 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2010-01-28 12:00:25+0000 1.924 +++ rss20.xml 2010-01-29 00:00:30+0000 1.925 @@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Sun gets a new sales department, Apple releases a nice picture frame with DRM</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/</link> + <description><ul> +<li>So it happened. Oracle has swallowed Sun Microsystems. Monty should have gotten the news by now. Perhaps he could even be interested by the announcements of Oracle? They&#8217;re hiring good sales reps. More seriously, the <a href="http://www.oracle.com/events/productstrategy/index.html#hardware">announcements done through webcasts and available on the Oracle website</a> are very impressive, product-wise and strategy-wise. Better server offerings, more powerful hardware, Java continued, OpenDocument Format praised. If Oracle executes what they just announced, we might actually end up having FUN, with capital letters. On the <a href="http://oracle.com.edgesuite.net/ivt/4000/8104/9236/12637/lobby_external_flash_clean_480x360/default.htm">specific chapter of OpenOffice.org</a>, an ODF-based, online version of OpenOffice.org has been announced and my small finger tells me that it&#8217;s going to be a very good surprize. What remains to be seen, of course, is whether Oracle will find this strategy to be profitable enough. They have discussed investments so far, but one should also expect the cost cutting part of the equation. Another thing that worries me is the lack of clear emphasis on Free &amp; Open Source. I hear &#8220;Open Systems&#8221;, &#8220;Open Standards&#8221; and &#8220;Open everything&#8221;. But the tough part will also be in the governance of existing Free and Open Source projects. This being said, I have to stress how pleased I have been by what I heard and watched so far. So pleased, in fact, that it seems to me that Oracle has ended up merging with Sun, more than merely acquiring it. The result might very well end up being Sun on steroids, or Sun with a new sales department and a serious database offering that Monty hates. Good luck and congratulations!</li> +<li>What I have not enjoyed was the presentation of Apple&#8217;s iPad. To be sure, it&#8217;s a nice device, and I understand that it&#8217;s not being advertised as some sort of netbook or affordable MacBook. It&#8217;s actually a very nice device, looking like a beautiful picture frame. The inherent weakness is that it strikes me as a more powerful iPhone. The smart part of that story is that Apple is essentially offering easy and elegant Internet browsing to anyone by minimizing its own costs and risk taking. The bad part is that the iPad is riddled with DRM, and that you are essentially locked up in Apple&#8217;s infamous App Store. In short, it&#8217;s a device letting you browse the Internet as long as Apple wants it, depriving you of your most basic digital freedoms. I do not think that it will pay and that in the end, sole consumer&#8217;s satisfaction induced by very powerful marketing and excellent user experience will be enough. Other competitors will eventually be &#8220;as good&#8221; as Apple, with less restrictions and less of that Diva-like behaviour, which is another way to write the words &#8220;anti-competitive&#8221; and &#8220;proprietary&#8221;.</li> +</ul> +<p>We are in the end of January 2010: Sun just disappeared, Apple re-releases its Newton. Happy future, everyone.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=156&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_156" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:05:14 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>GullFOSS: New: OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Release Candidate 4 (build OOO320_m11) available</title> <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/29f5d5a99de3dbb7</guid> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_23</link> @@ -167,22 +180,6 @@ <!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></description> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:57:41 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>GullFOSS: User Experience F2F Day Two</title> - <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/c5561009aa8c4666</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/user_experience_f2f_day_two</link> - <description><p> </p> - <p>Please read Christoph Noack's <a href="http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2010/01/ux-meeting-in-hamburg-day-two.html">second blog posting</a> on his visit in Hamburg, which he begins with:<br /></p> - <p>&quot;This is my second â and last â posting which covers my two days stay âUX meeting in Hamburgâ. <a href="http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2010/01/ux-meeting-in-hamburg-day-one.html">In the last posting</a>, -I've talked about non-disruptive messages and the common goal for -OpenOffice.org. Now, we will have a look at Impress and the printing -improvements.&quot;</p> - <p> BTW<br />It seems from the comments I got and notes I read on the list, that we humans are indeed more pleased to be F2F than only bits and bytes. ;-)</p> - <p>Kind regards,</p> - <p>Liz </p> - <p><br /> </p></description> - <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:49:28 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
