User: jpmcc Date: 2010-03-04 06:00:38+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 Mar 4 07:00:13 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=1.3016&r2=1.3017 Delta lines: +30 -47 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2010-03-04 00:00:27+0000 1.3016 +++ atom.xml 2010-03-04 06:00:35+0000 1.3017 @@ -5,9 +5,29 @@ <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>2010-03-04T00:00:25+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:33+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry> + <title type="html">Document Freedom Day 2010 - Free your documents, save your information!</title> + <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/document-freedom-day-2010-free-your.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4001571820383438801</id> + <updated>2010-03-03T22:06:27+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><div>A link worth attention. </div><div><br /></div><a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100302-01.en.html">Document Freedom Day 2010 - Free your documents, save your information!</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-4001571820383438801?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></content> + <author> + <name>oulipo</name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + <uri>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">ooo-speak</title> + <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> + <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">New features prove a hit with users of OpenOffice.org</title> <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/03/new-features-prove-a-hit-with-users-of-openoffice-org/"/> @@ -25,7 +45,7 @@ <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> - 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<updated>2010-03-04T00:00:14+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -302,7 +322,7 @@ <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>2010-03-04T00:00:14+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -356,7 +376,7 @@ <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>2010-03-04T00:00:14+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -398,7 +418,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2010-02-25T18:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -418,7 +438,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2010-02-25T18:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -438,44 +458,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2010-02-25T18:00:21+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Events &amp; Non-events</title> - <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/02/09/events-non-events/"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/02/09/events-non-events/</id> - <updated>2010-02-09T16:59:51+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p> <font>This week started the wrong way. Some people started to create what is litterally a storm in the teacup, while some other people made announcements that in my view are extremely disappointing and quite concerning for some practitioners of FOSS licensing management and consultancy. Let me explain this point first.</font></p> -<p> <font>Black Duck was awarded a patent on <a href="http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/releases/2010-02-02">Open Source licensing conflict resolution</a>. The patent itself seems to cover the âcore technologyâ of the software developed by Black Duck, and not the actual practice of FOSS licensing management and optimization, which is something that Ars Aperta incidently offers both through <a href="http://arsaperta.com/strategie-et-logiciel-libre">its traditional services</a> and <a href="http://arsaperta.com/certification-aperta/la-certification-aperta-la-garantie-d-une-demarche-open-source-maitrisee">certification programs</a>. I have to say that I am not really sure what the patent covers or does not cover, but it sure brings a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt for the existing competitors or potential competitors of Black Duck Software, existing consultancies in similar field and last but not least, customers. No wonder <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/02/took-our-jobs.html">Bradley Kuhn</a> got upset about this. I do find these news quite unsettling myself, and <a href="http://blog.blackducksoftware.com/2010/02/08/why-black-duck-software-was-granted-patent-protection-by-the-us-government/">I cannot wait to see Black Duck&#8217;s patent promise</a>. At least that should remind some not to trust so called Open Source experts who use laptops with Windows, MS Office and Internet Explorer. It&#8217;s a small but telling sign they treat FOSS as some sort of disease and not as something to rationally analyze and assist their customers on. And do I need to repeat this again here? Software patents are bad, they stifle competition, customer choice, block innovation and lessen value. You may call them a reality, you don&#8217;t have to necessarily add to it.</font></p> -<p> <font>What really strikes me as a real storm in the tea-cup is the pseudo announcement that Ubuntu will drop Openoffice.org from its upcoming Lucid Lynx release, in its netbook edition. The news came from <a href="http://digitizor.com/2010/02/05/openoffice-dropped-from-ubuntu-netbook-edition-10-04/">this website</a> and got quickly picked out by the <a href="http://ecrans.fr/Ubuntu-OpenOffice-vire-d-office,9144.html">largest french newspaper</a>, stirring quite an uproar among the French community.</font></p> -<p> <font>Let me offer some thoughts on why these news are nothing short of non-news, aside the mere fact that there is no official announcement by Canonical or any Ubuntu release team on this matter.</font></p> -<ul> -<li> -<p> <font>First, OpenOffice.org is a large application that usually runs well even on netbooks, but may not be the best tailored tool for specific uses envisioned for netbook users. There is nothing surprising in this, and several Linux distributions have actually never included OpenOffice.org by default because of size constraints and simplicity.</font></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <font>Second, even if Ubuntu were to drop OpenOffice.org from its specific netbook edition it does not mean that the software would be unavailable from the very same Ubuntu repositories. In fact it would be readily available, but it just would not be included in the default installation. How many computers shipped with Windows only include a trial version of Microsoft Word and not a coherent MS Office stack? Almost all of them don&#8217;t ship with the full copy of MS Office.</font></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <font>Third, we recently got hold of the first reliable statistics, aside our own count of downloads, of <a href="http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html">the actual market share of OpenOffice.org on a worldwide scale</a>. And guess what? With these numbers, we won&#8217;t be exactly hampered by whatever decision not to ship OpenOffice.org in the default install set of Ubuntu netbook edition.</font></p> -</li> -</ul> -<p> <font>What is now needed is some sort of acknowledgment by the broader community of analysts that these stats are reliable. This would cause some real problems to Microsoft, as these statistics usually only count the shipments or the default installation images of MS Windows that come preloaded with one trial version of MS Word. Unless Microsoft patents some new market share analysis method, that is.</font></p> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=157&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_157" 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>2010-03-03T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.3023&r2=1.3024 Delta lines: +15 -34 --------------------- --- index.html 2010-03-04 00:00:27+0000 1.3023 +++ index.html 2010-03-04 06:00:35+0000 1.3024 @@ -37,10 +37,24 @@ <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: March 04, 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: March 04, 2010 06:00 AM CET</em></p> <h2>March 03, 2010</h2> <h3> +<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> +Louis Suarez-Potts</a> : +<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/document-freedom-day-2010-free-your.html";> +Document Freedom Day 2010 - Free your documents, save your information!</a> +</h3> +<p> +<div>A link worth attention. </div><div><br /></div><a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100302-01.en.html";>Document Freedom Day 2010 - Free your documents, save your information!</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-4001571820383438801?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com"; alt="" /></div></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/document-freedom-day-2010-free-your.html";>by oulipo ([email protected]) at March 03, 2010 10:06 PM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> John McCreesh</a> : <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/03/new-features-prove-a-hit-with-users-of-openoffice-org/";> @@ -385,39 +399,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>February 09, 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/2010/02/09/events-non-events/";> -Events & Non-events</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p> <font>This week started the wrong way. Some people started to create what is litterally a storm in the teacup, while some other people made announcements that in my view are extremely disappointing and quite concerning for some practitioners of FOSS licensing management and consultancy. Let me explain this point first.</font></p> -<p> <font>Black Duck was awarded a patent on <a href="http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/releases/2010-02-02";>Open Source licensing conflict resolution</a>. The patent itself seems to cover the âcore technologyâ of the software developed by Black Duck, and not the actual practice of FOSS licensing management and optimization, which is something that Ars Aperta incidently offers both through <a href="http://arsaperta.com/strategie-et-logiciel-libre";>its traditional services</a> and <a href="http://arsaperta.com/certification-aperta/la-certification-aperta-la-garantie-d-une-demarche-open-source-maitrisee";>certification programs</a>. I have to say that I am not really sure what the patent covers or does not cover, but it sure brings a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt for the existing competitors or potential competitors of Black Duck Software, existing consultancies in similar field and last but not least, customers. No wonder <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/02/took-our-jobs.html";>Bradley Kuhn</a> got upset about this. I do find these news quite unsettling myself, and <a href="http://blog.blackducksoftware.com/2010/02/08/why-black-duck-software-was-granted-patent-protection-by-the-us-government/";>I cannot wait to see Black Duck’s patent promise</a>. At least that should remind some not to trust so called Open Source experts who use laptops with Windows, MS Office and Internet Explorer. It’s a small but telling sign they treat FOSS as some sort of disease and not as something to rationally analyze and assist their customers on. And do I need to repeat this again here? Software patents are bad, they stifle competition, customer choice, block innovation and lessen value. You may call them a reality, you don’t have to necessarily add to it.</font></p> -<p> <font>What really strikes me as a real storm in the tea-cup is the pseudo announcement that Ubuntu will drop Openoffice.org from its upcoming Lucid Lynx release, in its netbook edition. The news came from <a href="http://digitizor.com/2010/02/05/openoffice-dropped-from-ubuntu-netbook-edition-10-04/";>this website</a> and got quickly picked out by the <a href="http://ecrans.fr/Ubuntu-OpenOffice-vire-d-office,9144.html";>largest french newspaper</a>, stirring quite an uproar among the French community.</font></p> -<p> <font>Let me offer some thoughts on why these news are nothing short of non-news, aside the mere fact that there is no official announcement by Canonical or any Ubuntu release team on this matter.</font></p> -<ul> -<li> -<p> <font>First, OpenOffice.org is a large application that usually runs well even on netbooks, but may not be the best tailored tool for specific uses envisioned for netbook users. There is nothing surprising in this, and several Linux distributions have actually never included OpenOffice.org by default because of size constraints and simplicity.</font></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <font>Second, even if Ubuntu were to drop OpenOffice.org from its specific netbook edition it does not mean that the software would be unavailable from the very same Ubuntu repositories. In fact it would be readily available, but it just would not be included in the default installation. How many computers shipped with Windows only include a trial version of Microsoft Word and not a coherent MS Office stack? Almost all of them don’t ship with the full copy of MS Office.</font></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <font>Third, we recently got hold of the first reliable statistics, aside our own count of downloads, of <a href="http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html";>the actual market share of OpenOffice.org on a worldwide scale</a>. And guess what? With these numbers, we won’t be exactly hampered by whatever decision not to ship OpenOffice.org in the default install set of Ubuntu netbook edition.</font></p> -</li> -</ul> -<p> <font>What is now needed is some sort of acknowledgment by the broader community of analysts that these stats are reliable. This would cause some real problems to Microsoft, as these statistics usually only count the shipments or the default installation images of MS Windows that come preloaded with one trial version of MS Word. Unless Microsoft patents some new market share analysis method, that is.</font></p> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=157&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_157" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/02/09/events-non-events/";>by Charles at February 09, 2010 04:59 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=1.3016&r2=1.3017 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2010-03-04 00:00:28+0000 1.3016 +++ opml.xml 2010-03-04 06:00:36+0000 1.3017 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:25 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:33 +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=1.951&r2=1.952 Delta lines: +8 -25 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2010-03-03 12:00:33+0000 1.951 +++ rss10.xml 2010-03-04 06:00:36+0000 1.952 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4001571820383438801" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=852"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/24771308"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/24771303"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,17 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6286556479820869743" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-8992708884741994988" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6034950711710348404" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/02/09/events-non-events/"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4001571820383438801"> + <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Document Freedom Day 2010 - Free your documents, save your information!</title> + <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/document-freedom-day-2010-free-your.html</link> + <content:encoded><div>A link worth attention. </div><div><br /></div><a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100302-01.en.html">Document Freedom Day 2010 - Free your documents, save your information!</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-4001571820383438801?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-03-03T22:06:27+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=852";> <title>John McCreesh: New features prove a hit with users of OpenOffice.org</title> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/03/new-features-prove-a-hit-with-users-of-openoffice-org/</link> @@ -225,29 +232,5 @@ <dc:date>2010-02-13T12:16:17+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/02/09/events-non-events/";> - <title>Charles Schulz: Events & Non-events</title> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/02/09/events-non-events/</link> - <content:encoded><p> <font>This week started the wrong way. Some people started to create what is litterally a storm in the teacup, while some other people made announcements that in my view are extremely disappointing and quite concerning for some practitioners of FOSS licensing management and consultancy. Let me explain this point first.</font></p> -<p> <font>Black Duck was awarded a patent on <a href="http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/releases/2010-02-02">Open Source licensing conflict resolution</a>. The patent itself seems to cover the âcore technologyâ of the software developed by Black Duck, and not the actual practice of FOSS licensing management and optimization, which is something that Ars Aperta incidently offers both through <a href="http://arsaperta.com/strategie-et-logiciel-libre">its traditional services</a> and <a href="http://arsaperta.com/certification-aperta/la-certification-aperta-la-garantie-d-une-demarche-open-source-maitrisee">certification programs</a>. I have to say that I am not really sure what the patent covers or does not cover, but it sure brings a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt for the existing competitors or potential competitors of Black Duck Software, existing consultancies in similar field and last but not least, customers. No wonder <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/02/took-our-jobs.html">Bradley Kuhn</a> got upset about this. I do find these news quite unsettling myself, and <a href="http://blog.blackducksoftware.com/2010/02/08/why-black-duck-software-was-granted-patent-protection-by-the-us-government/">I cannot wait to see Black Duck&#8217;s patent promise</a>. At least that should remind some not to trust so called Open Source experts who use laptops with Windows, MS Office and Internet Explorer. It&#8217;s a small but telling sign they treat FOSS as some sort of disease and not as something to rationally analyze and assist their customers on. And do I need to repeat this again here? Software patents are bad, they stifle competition, customer choice, block innovation and lessen value. You may call them a reality, you don&#8217;t have to necessarily add to it.</font></p> -<p> <font>What really strikes me as a real storm in the tea-cup is the pseudo announcement that Ubuntu will drop Openoffice.org from its upcoming Lucid Lynx release, in its netbook edition. The news came from <a href="http://digitizor.com/2010/02/05/openoffice-dropped-from-ubuntu-netbook-edition-10-04/">this website</a> and got quickly picked out by the <a href="http://ecrans.fr/Ubuntu-OpenOffice-vire-d-office,9144.html">largest french newspaper</a>, stirring quite an uproar among the French community.</font></p> -<p> <font>Let me offer some thoughts on why these news are nothing short of non-news, aside the mere fact that there is no official announcement by Canonical or any Ubuntu release team on this matter.</font></p> -<ul> -<li> -<p> <font>First, OpenOffice.org is a large application that usually runs well even on netbooks, but may not be the best tailored tool for specific uses envisioned for netbook users. There is nothing surprising in this, and several Linux distributions have actually never included OpenOffice.org by default because of size constraints and simplicity.</font></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <font>Second, even if Ubuntu were to drop OpenOffice.org from its specific netbook edition it does not mean that the software would be unavailable from the very same Ubuntu repositories. In fact it would be readily available, but it just would not be included in the default installation. How many computers shipped with Windows only include a trial version of Microsoft Word and not a coherent MS Office stack? Almost all of them don&#8217;t ship with the full copy of MS Office.</font></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <font>Third, we recently got hold of the first reliable statistics, aside our own count of downloads, of <a href="http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html">the actual market share of OpenOffice.org on a worldwide scale</a>. And guess what? With these numbers, we won&#8217;t be exactly hampered by whatever decision not to ship OpenOffice.org in the default install set of Ubuntu netbook edition.</font></p> -</li> -</ul> -<p> <font>What is now needed is some sort of acknowledgment by the broader community of analysts that these stats are reliable. This would cause some real problems to Microsoft, as these statistics usually only count the shipments or the default installation images of MS Windows that come preloaded with one trial version of MS Word. Unless Microsoft patents some new market share analysis method, that is.</font></p> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=157&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_157" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2010-02-09T16:59:51+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.951&r2=1.952 Delta lines: +8 -25 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2010-03-03 12:00:33+0000 1.951 +++ rss20.xml 2010-03-04 06:00:36+0000 1.952 @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Document Freedom Day 2010 - Free your documents, save your information!</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4001571820383438801</guid> + <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/document-freedom-day-2010-free-your.html</link> + <description><div>A link worth attention. </div><div><br /></div><a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100302-01.en.html">Document Freedom Day 2010 - Free your documents, save your information!</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-4001571820383438801?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></description> + <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:06:27 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> +</item> +<item> <title>John McCreesh: New features prove a hit with users of OpenOffice.org</title> <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=852</guid> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/03/new-features-prove-a-hit-with-users-of-openoffice-org/</link> @@ -213,31 +221,6 @@ <pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:16:17 +0000</pubDate> <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> </item> -<item> - <title>Charles Schulz: Events & Non-events</title> - <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/02/09/events-non-events/</guid> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/02/09/events-non-events/</link> - <description><p> <font>This week started the wrong way. Some people started to create what is litterally a storm in the teacup, while some other people made announcements that in my view are extremely disappointing and quite concerning for some practitioners of FOSS licensing management and consultancy. Let me explain this point first.</font></p> -<p> <font>Black Duck was awarded a patent on <a href="http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/releases/2010-02-02">Open Source licensing conflict resolution</a>. The patent itself seems to cover the âcore technologyâ of the software developed by Black Duck, and not the actual practice of FOSS licensing management and optimization, which is something that Ars Aperta incidently offers both through <a href="http://arsaperta.com/strategie-et-logiciel-libre">its traditional services</a> and <a href="http://arsaperta.com/certification-aperta/la-certification-aperta-la-garantie-d-une-demarche-open-source-maitrisee">certification programs</a>. I have to say that I am not really sure what the patent covers or does not cover, but it sure brings a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt for the existing competitors or potential competitors of Black Duck Software, existing consultancies in similar field and last but not least, customers. No wonder <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/02/took-our-jobs.html">Bradley Kuhn</a> got upset about this. I do find these news quite unsettling myself, and <a href="http://blog.blackducksoftware.com/2010/02/08/why-black-duck-software-was-granted-patent-protection-by-the-us-government/">I cannot wait to see Black Duck&#8217;s patent promise</a>. At least that should remind some not to trust so called Open Source experts who use laptops with Windows, MS Office and Internet Explorer. It&#8217;s a small but telling sign they treat FOSS as some sort of disease and not as something to rationally analyze and assist their customers on. And do I need to repeat this again here? Software patents are bad, they stifle competition, customer choice, block innovation and lessen value. You may call them a reality, you don&#8217;t have to necessarily add to it.</font></p> -<p> <font>What really strikes me as a real storm in the tea-cup is the pseudo announcement that Ubuntu will drop Openoffice.org from its upcoming Lucid Lynx release, in its netbook edition. The news came from <a href="http://digitizor.com/2010/02/05/openoffice-dropped-from-ubuntu-netbook-edition-10-04/">this website</a> and got quickly picked out by the <a href="http://ecrans.fr/Ubuntu-OpenOffice-vire-d-office,9144.html">largest french newspaper</a>, stirring quite an uproar among the French community.</font></p> -<p> <font>Let me offer some thoughts on why these news are nothing short of non-news, aside the mere fact that there is no official announcement by Canonical or any Ubuntu release team on this matter.</font></p> -<ul> -<li> -<p> <font>First, OpenOffice.org is a large application that usually runs well even on netbooks, but may not be the best tailored tool for specific uses envisioned for netbook users. There is nothing surprising in this, and several Linux distributions have actually never included OpenOffice.org by default because of size constraints and simplicity.</font></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <font>Second, even if Ubuntu were to drop OpenOffice.org from its specific netbook edition it does not mean that the software would be unavailable from the very same Ubuntu repositories. In fact it would be readily available, but it just would not be included in the default installation. How many computers shipped with Windows only include a trial version of Microsoft Word and not a coherent MS Office stack? Almost all of them don&#8217;t ship with the full copy of MS Office.</font></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <font>Third, we recently got hold of the first reliable statistics, aside our own count of downloads, of <a href="http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html">the actual market share of OpenOffice.org on a worldwide scale</a>. And guess what? With these numbers, we won&#8217;t be exactly hampered by whatever decision not to ship OpenOffice.org in the default install set of Ubuntu netbook edition.</font></p> -</li> -</ul> -<p> <font>What is now needed is some sort of acknowledgment by the broader community of analysts that these stats are reliable. This would cause some real problems to Microsoft, as these statistics usually only count the shipments or the default installation images of MS Windows that come preloaded with one trial version of MS Word. Unless Microsoft patents some new market share analysis method, that is.</font></p> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=157&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_157" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></description> - <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:59:51 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
