User: jpmcc Date: 2010-04-24 17:00:54+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 Sat Apr 24 19:00:12 CEST 2010 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.3216&r2=1.3217 Delta lines: +35 -42 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2010-04-24 11:00:31+0000 1.3216 +++ atom.xml 2010-04-24 17:00:50+0000 1.3217 @@ -5,10 +5,30 @@ <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>2010-04-24T11:00:29+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:48+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry> + <title type="html">Drumbeat Toronto | Drumbeat</title> + <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/drumbeat-toronto-drumbeat.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3072410659440905007</id> + <updated>2010-04-24T09:34:04+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><div>This is today, in Toronto, and worth going to. The open Web--what we take for granted and therefore that which is most vulnerable, to legal, economic, social closure--is always at stake and always in need of the effort to keep it open. Open leads here to the freedom of use not just expression; use means both commercial as well as personal connectivity. Open is open market but also open forum. It is the new and expanding civil space and it is now, and always wil be, under the casual threat of anxious closure, unless we defend it and expand it and keep this thing of ours ours.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.drumbeat.org/events/drumbeat-toronto">Drumbeat Toronto | Drumbeat</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3072410659440905007?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>2010-04-24T17:00:21+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry> <title type="html">Just 10 More Days</title> <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/just_10_more_days"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5b4f3245aa2d7f79</id> @@ -28,7 +48,7 @@ <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>2010-04-24T11:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -50,7 +70,7 @@ <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>2010-04-24T11:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -73,7 +93,7 @@ <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>2010-04-24T11:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -116,7 +136,7 @@ <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>2010-04-10T17:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -237,7 +257,7 @@ <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>2010-04-10T17:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -257,7 +277,7 @@ <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>2010-04-10T17:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -277,7 +297,7 @@ <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>2010-04-10T17:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -297,7 +317,7 @@ <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>2010-04-10T17:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -317,7 +337,7 @@ <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>2010-04-10T17:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -337,7 +357,7 @@ <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>2010-04-10T17:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -357,7 +377,7 @@ <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>2010-04-10T17:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -377,7 +397,7 @@ <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>2010-04-10T17:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -397,7 +417,7 @@ <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>2010-04-10T17:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -417,34 +437,7 @@ <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>2010-04-10T17:00:18+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">The European Commission is always right. So is Microsoft.</title> - <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/29/eucom-right-microsoft/"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=163</id> - <updated>2010-03-29T12:06:51+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>The European Commission is becoming a thoroughly disappointing these days. Here&#8217;s a few examples.</p> -<ul> -<li>The full draft of the ACTA has been leaked (<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/0118-version-of-acta-consolidated-text-leaks">grab it here</a>) and as my colleague and friend <a href="http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/acta-s-beginning-of-the-end/">Andre Rebentisch</a> has described, the European Commission seems to know very well how to dig a hole for itself and stay in it.</li> -<li>Meanwhile the works around the second European Interoperability Framework have taken an interesting twist. Having started on rather excellent premises, different copies of the draft are now circulating, and they appear to have been watered down <a href="http://fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.en.html">by the direct influence of the Business Software Alliance</a>. Open Standards, let alone Open Source, now seem to have been put aside. When will the Commission learn how to make the difference between the interests of the European people and the Chinese and US economies?</li> -<li>It is also interesting to note that the Business Software Alliance and organizations supported by Microsoft have the ears of the European Commission, while Microsoft&#8217;s own search engine, Bing, is displaying interesting results on Microsoft&#8217;s own competitors. Just <a href="http://www.katonda.com/blog/922/microsoft-bing-trying-kill-open-office">look up for OpenOffice.org in Bing,</a> and you will see.</li> -<li>Meanwhile it is to be noted that the Commission has also opened a <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7854">public consultation on the European Interoperability Strategy</a>; it is to be hoped that it will not be a ground for further delay and sterile talk to be ended by the Commission making decisions based on the direction of the wind.</li> -</ul> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=163&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_163" 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>2010-04-23T11:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-24T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.3223&r2=1.3224 Delta lines: +16 -23 --------------------- --- index.html 2010-04-24 11:00:32+0000 1.3223 +++ index.html 2010-04-24 17:00:51+0000 1.3224 @@ -37,8 +37,23 @@ <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: April 24, 2010 11:00 AM CET</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: April 24, 2010 05:00 PM CET</em></p> +<h2>April 24, 2010</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> +Louis Suarez-Potts</a> : +<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/drumbeat-toronto-drumbeat.html";> +Drumbeat Toronto | Drumbeat</a> +</h3> +<p> +<div>This is today, in Toronto, and worth going to. The open Web--what we take for granted and therefore that which is most vulnerable, to legal, economic, social closure--is always at stake and always in need of the effort to keep it open. Open leads here to the freedom of use not just expression; use means both commercial as well as personal connectivity. Open is open market but also open forum. It is the new and expanding civil space and it is now, and always wil be, under the casual threat of anxious closure, unless we defend it and expand it and keep this thing of ours ours.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.drumbeat.org/events/drumbeat-toronto";>Drumbeat Toronto | Drumbeat</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3072410659440905007?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com"; alt="" /></div></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/drumbeat-toronto-drumbeat.html";>by oulipo ([email protected]) at April 24, 2010 09:34 AM CEST</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>April 20, 2010</h2> <h3> <a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> @@ -359,28 +374,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<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/2010/03/29/eucom-right-microsoft/";> -The European Commission is always right. So is Microsoft.</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>The European Commission is becoming a thoroughly disappointing these days. Here’s a few examples.</p> -<ul> -<li>The full draft of the ACTA has been leaked (<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/0118-version-of-acta-consolidated-text-leaks";>grab it here</a>) and as my colleague and friend <a href="http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/acta-s-beginning-of-the-end/";>Andre Rebentisch</a> has described, the European Commission seems to know very well how to dig a hole for itself and stay in it.</li> -<li>Meanwhile the works around the second European Interoperability Framework have taken an interesting twist. Having started on rather excellent premises, different copies of the draft are now circulating, and they appear to have been watered down <a href="http://fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.en.html";>by the direct influence of the Business Software Alliance</a>. Open Standards, let alone Open Source, now seem to have been put aside. When will the Commission learn how to make the difference between the interests of the European people and the Chinese and US economies?</li> -<li>It is also interesting to note that the Business Software Alliance and organizations supported by Microsoft have the ears of the European Commission, while Microsoft’s own search engine, Bing, is displaying interesting results on Microsoft’s own competitors. Just <a href="http://www.katonda.com/blog/922/microsoft-bing-trying-kill-open-office";>look up for OpenOffice.org in Bing,</a> and you will see.</li> -<li>Meanwhile it is to be noted that the Commission has also opened a <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7854";>public consultation on the European Interoperability Strategy</a>; it is to be hoped that it will not be a ground for further delay and sterile talk to be ended by the Commission making decisions based on the direction of the wind.</li> -</ul> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=163&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_163" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/29/eucom-right-microsoft/";>by Charles at March 29, 2010 12:06 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=1.3216&r2=1.3217 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2010-04-24 11:00:32+0000 1.3216 +++ opml.xml 2010-04-24 17:00:51+0000 1.3217 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:00:29 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:00:48 +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=1.979&r2=1.980 Delta lines: +8 -15 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2010-04-21 11:00:33+0000 1.979 +++ rss10.xml 2010-04-24 17:00:51+0000 1.980 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3072410659440905007" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5b4f3245aa2d7f79" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e5301b80d9bbb48e" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1bd8f78947711eeb" /> @@ -32,11 +33,17 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-8482572718699136445" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-7451795451890278863" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-2351330487283070985" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=163"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3072410659440905007"> + <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Drumbeat Toronto | Drumbeat</title> + <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/drumbeat-toronto-drumbeat.html</link> + <content:encoded><div>This is today, in Toronto, and worth going to. The open Web--what we take for granted and therefore that which is most vulnerable, to legal, economic, social closure--is always at stake and always in need of the effort to keep it open. Open leads here to the freedom of use not just expression; use means both commercial as well as personal connectivity. Open is open market but also open forum. It is the new and expanding civil space and it is now, and always wil be, under the casual threat of anxious closure, unless we defend it and expand it and keep this thing of ours ours.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.drumbeat.org/events/drumbeat-toronto">Drumbeat Toronto | Drumbeat</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3072410659440905007?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-04-24T09:34:04+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5b4f3245aa2d7f79"> <title>GullFOSS: Just 10 More Days</title> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/just_10_more_days</link> @@ -209,19 +216,5 @@ <dc:date>2010-03-29T23:54:22+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=163";> - <title>Charles Schulz: The European Commission is always right. So is Microsoft.</title> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/29/eucom-right-microsoft/</link> - <content:encoded><p>The European Commission is becoming a thoroughly disappointing these days. Here&#8217;s a few examples.</p> -<ul> -<li>The full draft of the ACTA has been leaked (<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/0118-version-of-acta-consolidated-text-leaks">grab it here</a>) and as my colleague and friend <a href="http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/acta-s-beginning-of-the-end/">Andre Rebentisch</a> has described, the European Commission seems to know very well how to dig a hole for itself and stay in it.</li> -<li>Meanwhile the works around the second European Interoperability Framework have taken an interesting twist. Having started on rather excellent premises, different copies of the draft are now circulating, and they appear to have been watered down <a href="http://fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.en.html">by the direct influence of the Business Software Alliance</a>. Open Standards, let alone Open Source, now seem to have been put aside. When will the Commission learn how to make the difference between the interests of the European people and the Chinese and US economies?</li> -<li>It is also interesting to note that the Business Software Alliance and organizations supported by Microsoft have the ears of the European Commission, while Microsoft&#8217;s own search engine, Bing, is displaying interesting results on Microsoft&#8217;s own competitors. Just <a href="http://www.katonda.com/blog/922/microsoft-bing-trying-kill-open-office">look up for OpenOffice.org in Bing,</a> and you will see.</li> -<li>Meanwhile it is to be noted that the Commission has also opened a <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7854">public consultation on the European Interoperability Strategy</a>; it is to be hoped that it will not be a ground for further delay and sterile talk to be ended by the Commission making decisions based on the direction of the wind.</li> -</ul> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=163&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_163" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2010-03-29T12:06:51+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.979&r2=1.980 Delta lines: +8 -15 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2010-04-21 11:00:34+0000 1.979 +++ rss20.xml 2010-04-24 17:00:51+0000 1.980 @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Drumbeat Toronto | Drumbeat</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3072410659440905007</guid> + <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/drumbeat-toronto-drumbeat.html</link> + <description><div>This is today, in Toronto, and worth going to. The open Web--what we take for granted and therefore that which is most vulnerable, to legal, economic, social closure--is always at stake and always in need of the effort to keep it open. Open leads here to the freedom of use not just expression; use means both commercial as well as personal connectivity. Open is open market but also open forum. It is the new and expanding civil space and it is now, and always wil be, under the casual threat of anxious closure, unless we defend it and expand it and keep this thing of ours ours.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.drumbeat.org/events/drumbeat-toronto">Drumbeat Toronto | Drumbeat</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3072410659440905007?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></description> + <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:34:04 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> +</item> +<item> <title>GullFOSS: Just 10 More Days</title> <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5b4f3245aa2d7f79</guid> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/just_10_more_days</link> @@ -195,21 +203,6 @@ <pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:54:22 +0000</pubDate> <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> </item> -<item> - <title>Charles Schulz: The European Commission is always right. So is Microsoft.</title> - <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=163</guid> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/29/eucom-right-microsoft/</link> - <description><p>The European Commission is becoming a thoroughly disappointing these days. Here&#8217;s a few examples.</p> -<ul> -<li>The full draft of the ACTA has been leaked (<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/0118-version-of-acta-consolidated-text-leaks">grab it here</a>) and as my colleague and friend <a href="http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/acta-s-beginning-of-the-end/">Andre Rebentisch</a> has described, the European Commission seems to know very well how to dig a hole for itself and stay in it.</li> -<li>Meanwhile the works around the second European Interoperability Framework have taken an interesting twist. Having started on rather excellent premises, different copies of the draft are now circulating, and they appear to have been watered down <a href="http://fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.en.html">by the direct influence of the Business Software Alliance</a>. Open Standards, let alone Open Source, now seem to have been put aside. When will the Commission learn how to make the difference between the interests of the European people and the Chinese and US economies?</li> -<li>It is also interesting to note that the Business Software Alliance and organizations supported by Microsoft have the ears of the European Commission, while Microsoft&#8217;s own search engine, Bing, is displaying interesting results on Microsoft&#8217;s own competitors. Just <a href="http://www.katonda.com/blog/922/microsoft-bing-trying-kill-open-office">look up for OpenOffice.org in Bing,</a> and you will see.</li> -<li>Meanwhile it is to be noted that the Commission has also opened a <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7854">public consultation on the European Interoperability Strategy</a>; it is to be hoped that it will not be a ground for further delay and sterile talk to be ended by the Commission making decisions based on the direction of the wind.</li> -</ul> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=163&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_163" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></description> - <pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:06:51 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
