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Log: Planet run at Mon May 10 01:01:51 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=1.3262&r2=1.3263 Delta lines: +32 -28 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2010-05-09 17:02:40+0000 1.3262 +++ atom.xml 2010-05-09 23:02:42+0000 1.3263 @@ -5,9 +5,33 @@ <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>2010-05-09T17:02:38+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-05-09T23:02:40+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Much ado about nothing</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/05/09/much-ado-about-nothing/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=181</id> + <updated>2010-05-09T17:46:22+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>When I was freshly elected at the <a href="http://council.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org&#8217;s Community Council</a> the <a href="http://www.fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a> approached us with a question related to our <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org">extensions web site</a>. Basically they felt that we should not be hosting non Free Software extensions and requested we take those down otherwise they would open their own extensions site.</p> +<p>For the sake of clarity, extensions are &#8220;plugins&#8221; for OpenOffice.org that work very much like Firefox plugins. They extend the feature set of OpenOffice.org and are a great way to grow our community. I should mention that the number of Free and Open Source Software extensions outgrow by far the number of the proprietary ones: They are in fact more the exception than the rule. The Community Council has been working on a press release which we just released and that you can read on <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=417">this page</a>. I am sorry we could not find a good solution, but we have essentially and respectfully agreed to disagree on a topic which I find quite <em>unimportant</em>. Shortly after I posted the announcement on behalf of the OpenOffice.org project, I received a flurry of emails, both satisfied and unsatisfied, both public and private.</p> +<p>As for my very own, personal opinion, I do have the highest respect and regard for the Free Software Foundation and count myself as one of their most fervent supporters. But I would have hoped that they understand the merit of prioritizing their agenda items and the timing of their actions. When the FSF approached the OpenOffice.org project via our Community Council we were shaken by the buyout of our main sponsor, Sun Microsystems, and had to reassure both our contributors, our users, and perhaps ourselves as well. The request from the FSF caught us off-guard and although we dealt with it with the utmost attention, I could not help but think that the folks over there in Boston must be living in another dimension. I got the feeling they were like a bunch of officiers from the logistics department of an army who would stop everything on the wake of a war just because the markings underneath the trucks have not been properly painted.</p> +<p>Seriously, did they have nothing better to do ? Asking questions on the future of our project? On the ODF standard? On how the new main sponsor thought of its future leadership? On the changing grounds of FOSS vs. proprietary software in the context of the emergence of cloud computing? Really, did they have nothing on their plate besides picking the five proprietary extensions on the OpenOffice.org website and make a whole cheese out of it? Now the FSF seems busy creating <a href="http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List">another extensions website</a>, which I can&#8217;t help finding useful for OpenOffice.org, as it is just a second &#8220;app store&#8221; for our users and a second venue for our developers. Congratulations, FSF, you know how to pick your fights.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=181&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_181" 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>2010-05-09T23:01:55+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry> <title type="html">Total victory for open source software in a patent lawsuit | opensource.com</title> <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/05/total-victory-for-open-source-software.html"/> @@ -54,7 +78,7 @@ <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>2010-05-06T23:02:05+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-05-09T23:01:55+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -117,7 +141,7 @@ <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>2010-05-09T17:01:55+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-05-09T23:01:57+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -146,7 +170,7 @@ <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>2010-05-06T23:02:05+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-05-09T23:01:55+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -172,7 +196,7 @@ <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>2010-05-09T17:01:55+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-05-09T23:01:57+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -276,7 +300,7 @@ <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>2010-05-09T17:01:55+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-05-09T23:01:57+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -298,7 +322,7 @@ <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>2010-05-09T17:01:55+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-05-09T23:01:57+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -321,7 +345,7 @@ <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>2010-05-09T17:01:55+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-05-09T23:01:57+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -348,24 +372,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">Yet another HDD crash....</title> - <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/yet-another-hdd-crash.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6317826453723897490</id> - <updated>2010-04-08T16:10:47+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">I guess it must have been last year but maybe it was longer ago than that. But my MacBook Pro (July 2007) crashed again, to the point where the HD was unreadable. Fortunately, I use Apple&#x2019;s Time Machine to guard against this, uhm--surely not--tactical obsolescence, so was able to reinstall everything. But as I had a) lost my ethernet capability (it died in smoke, and I am not kidding: my friend Charles recorded it for immediate posterity) and b) had, to save space, chosen--foolishly--*not* to back up my applications, I had to spend the Friday (death) and weekend following, resurrecting everything bit by bit from the harbours in the sky where these things lurk. By Sunday the 5th of April, all the bits were more or less there, some older, some newer, some different but all possessed of the precious halo new life after the fact of loss gives.<br /><br />But it meant a forced weekend of no work, no writing, but a lot of reading on my so-far-faithful iPhone. My latest reads: Adrian Johns&#x2019; _Piracy, the Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates_ (Chicago, UoChicago, 2010; Kindle eBook), but also Charles Stross&#x2019; latest (#6 in the Merchant Princes Wars), plus, concurrently, the quite uninteresting David Edelman _Infoquake_, and the far more captivating but also uneven Mi&#x00e9;ville _The City and the City_, as well as the relentlessly dreary _Drood_ by Simmons. The latter, a *long* take on Dicken&#x2019;s wildly weird Mystery of Edwin Drood (a right companion to the magnificent _Our Mutual Friend_), seems to add what is not needed to a narrative whose sole interest lies in the historical, not the fictive. Then again, my wife is a Victorianist, and inter alia, her speciality includes Dickens, so by osmosis (and some study done during my own literary days getting my PhD at Berkeley), I have come to some understanding of Dickens and am fascinated by his life &amp; times, though I find myself more fixed by the present&#x2019;s formation of the future and by the past&#x2019;s comprehension of the present, than by the Victorian past itself. <br /><br />(And of course, I have often enjoyed reading steampunk, but like all such things, quality depends less on formal genre adherence and more on the nature of the story and its writing itself: quality is the pleasure one derives from the text, and that pleasure has some relation to genre but it is not identical to it.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6317826453723897490?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>2010-05-06T23:02:08+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.3269&r2=1.3270 Delta lines: +21 -16 --------------------- --- index.html 2010-05-09 17:02:40+0000 1.3269 +++ index.html 2010-05-09 23:02:42+0000 1.3270 @@ -37,8 +37,28 @@ <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: May 09, 2010 05:02 PM CET</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: May 09, 2010 11:02 PM CET</em></p> +<h2>May 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/2010/05/09/much-ado-about-nothing/";> +Much ado about nothing</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>When I was freshly elected at the <a href="http://council.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org’s Community Council</a> the <a href="http://www.fsf.org";>Free Software Foundation</a> approached us with a question related to our <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org";>extensions web site</a>. Basically they felt that we should not be hosting non Free Software extensions and requested we take those down otherwise they would open their own extensions site.</p> +<p>For the sake of clarity, extensions are “plugins” for OpenOffice.org that work very much like Firefox plugins. They extend the feature set of OpenOffice.org and are a great way to grow our community. I should mention that the number of Free and Open Source Software extensions outgrow by far the number of the proprietary ones: They are in fact more the exception than the rule. The Community Council has been working on a press release which we just released and that you can read on <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=417";>this page</a>. I am sorry we could not find a good solution, but we have essentially and respectfully agreed to disagree on a topic which I find quite <em>unimportant</em>. Shortly after I posted the announcement on behalf of the OpenOffice.org project, I received a flurry of emails, both satisfied and unsatisfied, both public and private.</p> +<p>As for my very own, personal opinion, I do have the highest respect and regard for the Free Software Foundation and count myself as one of their most fervent supporters. But I would have hoped that they understand the merit of prioritizing their agenda items and the timing of their actions. When the FSF approached the OpenOffice.org project via our Community Council we were shaken by the buyout of our main sponsor, Sun Microsystems, and had to reassure both our contributors, our users, and perhaps ourselves as well. The request from the FSF caught us off-guard and although we dealt with it with the utmost attention, I could not help but think that the folks over there in Boston must be living in another dimension. I got the feeling they were like a bunch of officiers from the logistics department of an army who would stop everything on the wake of a war just because the markings underneath the trucks have not been properly painted.</p> +<p>Seriously, did they have nothing better to do ? Asking questions on the future of our project? On the ODF standard? On how the new main sponsor thought of its future leadership? On the changing grounds of FOSS vs. proprietary software in the context of the emergence of cloud computing? Really, did they have nothing on their plate besides picking the five proprietary extensions on the OpenOffice.org website and make a whole cheese out of it? Now the FSF seems busy creating <a href="http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List";>another extensions website</a>, which I can’t help finding useful for OpenOffice.org, as it is just a second “app store” for our users and a second venue for our developers. Congratulations, FSF, you know how to pick your fights.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=181&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_181" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/05/09/much-ado-about-nothing/";>by Charles at May 09, 2010 05:46 PM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>May 04, 2010</h2> <h3> <a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> @@ -312,21 +332,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>April 08, 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/yet-another-hdd-crash.html";> -Yet another HDD crash....</a> -</h3> -<p> -I guess it must have been last year but maybe it was longer ago than that. But my MacBook Pro (July 2007) crashed again, to the point where the HD was unreadable. Fortunately, I use Apple’s Time Machine to guard against this, uhm--surely not--tactical obsolescence, so was able to reinstall everything. But as I had a) lost my ethernet capability (it died in smoke, and I am not kidding: my friend Charles recorded it for immediate posterity) and b) had, to save space, chosen--foolishly--*not* to back up my applications, I had to spend the Friday (death) and weekend following, resurrecting everything bit by bit from the harbours in the sky where these things lurk. By Sunday the 5th of April, all the bits were more or less there, some older, some newer, some different but all possessed of the precious halo new life after the fact of loss gives.<br /><br />But it meant a forced weekend of no work, no writing, but a lot of reading on my so-far-faithful iPhone. My latest reads: Adrian Johns’ _Piracy, the Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates_ (Chicago, UoChicago, 2010; Kindle eBook), but also Charles Stross’ latest (#6 in the Merchant Princes Wars), plus, concurrently, the quite uninteresting David Edelman _Infoquake_, and the far more captivating but also uneven Miéville _The City and the City_, as well as the relentlessly dreary _Drood_ by Simmons. The latter, a *long* take on Dicken’s wildly weird Mystery of Edwin Drood (a right companion to the magnificent _Our Mutual Friend_), seems to add what is not needed to a narrative whose sole interest lies in the historical, not the fictive. Then again, my wife is a Victorianist, and inter alia, her speciality includes Dickens, so by osmosis (and some study done during my own literary days getting my PhD at Berkeley), I have come to some understanding of Dickens and am fascinated by his life & times, though I find myself more fixed by the present’s formation of the future and by the past’s comprehension of the present, than by the Victorian past itself. <br /><br />(And of course, I have often enjoyed reading steampunk, but like all such things, quality depends less on formal genre adherence and more on the nature of the story and its writing itself: quality is the pleasure one derives from the text, and that pleasure has some relation to genre but it is not identical to it.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6317826453723897490?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com"; alt="" /></div></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/yet-another-hdd-crash.html";>by oulipo ([email protected]) at April 08, 2010 04:10 PM CEST</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=1.3262&r2=1.3263 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2010-05-09 17:02:41+0000 1.3262 +++ opml.xml 2010-05-09 23:02:43+0000 1.3263 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Sun, 09 May 2010 17:02:38 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Sun, 09 May 2010 23:02:40 +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=1.986&r2=1.987 Delta lines: +12 -8 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2010-05-07 11:02:40+0000 1.986 +++ rss10.xml 2010-05-09 23:02:43+0000 1.987 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=181"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-7090739090250189647" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=177"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-5143169586803614541" /> @@ -28,11 +29,21 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e5301b80d9bbb48e" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1bd8f78947711eeb" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/32738915"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6317826453723897490" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=181";> + <title>Charles Schulz: Much ado about nothing</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/05/09/much-ado-about-nothing/</link> + <content:encoded><p>When I was freshly elected at the <a href="http://council.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org&#8217;s Community Council</a> the <a href="http://www.fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a> approached us with a question related to our <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org">extensions web site</a>. Basically they felt that we should not be hosting non Free Software extensions and requested we take those down otherwise they would open their own extensions site.</p> +<p>For the sake of clarity, extensions are &#8220;plugins&#8221; for OpenOffice.org that work very much like Firefox plugins. They extend the feature set of OpenOffice.org and are a great way to grow our community. I should mention that the number of Free and Open Source Software extensions outgrow by far the number of the proprietary ones: They are in fact more the exception than the rule. The Community Council has been working on a press release which we just released and that you can read on <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=417">this page</a>. I am sorry we could not find a good solution, but we have essentially and respectfully agreed to disagree on a topic which I find quite <em>unimportant</em>. Shortly after I posted the announcement on behalf of the OpenOffice.org project, I received a flurry of emails, both satisfied and unsatisfied, both public and private.</p> +<p>As for my very own, personal opinion, I do have the highest respect and regard for the Free Software Foundation and count myself as one of their most fervent supporters. But I would have hoped that they understand the merit of prioritizing their agenda items and the timing of their actions. When the FSF approached the OpenOffice.org project via our Community Council we were shaken by the buyout of our main sponsor, Sun Microsystems, and had to reassure both our contributors, our users, and perhaps ourselves as well. The request from the FSF caught us off-guard and although we dealt with it with the utmost attention, I could not help but think that the folks over there in Boston must be living in another dimension. I got the feeling they were like a bunch of officiers from the logistics department of an army who would stop everything on the wake of a war just because the markings underneath the trucks have not been properly painted.</p> +<p>Seriously, did they have nothing better to do ? Asking questions on the future of our project? On the ODF standard? On how the new main sponsor thought of its future leadership? On the changing grounds of FOSS vs. proprietary software in the context of the emergence of cloud computing? Really, did they have nothing on their plate besides picking the five proprietary extensions on the OpenOffice.org website and make a whole cheese out of it? Now the FSF seems busy creating <a href="http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List">another extensions website</a>, which I can&#8217;t help finding useful for OpenOffice.org, as it is just a second &#8220;app store&#8221; for our users and a second venue for our developers. Congratulations, FSF, you know how to pick your fights.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=181&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_181" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-05-09T17:46:22+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-7090739090250189647"> <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Total victory for open source software in a patent lawsuit | opensource.com</title> <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/05/total-victory-for-open-source-software.html</link> @@ -188,12 +199,5 @@ </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/Mc777FsxZ2Q" height="1" width="1" /></content:encoded> <dc:date>2010-04-15T19:17:38+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6317826453723897490"> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Yet another HDD crash....</title> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/yet-another-hdd-crash.html</link> - <content:encoded>I guess it must have been last year but maybe it was longer ago than that. But my MacBook Pro (July 2007) crashed again, to the point where the HD was unreadable. Fortunately, I use Apple&#x2019;s Time Machine to guard against this, uhm--surely not--tactical obsolescence, so was able to reinstall everything. But as I had a) lost my ethernet capability (it died in smoke, and I am not kidding: my friend Charles recorded it for immediate posterity) and b) had, to save space, chosen--foolishly--*not* to back up my applications, I had to spend the Friday (death) and weekend following, resurrecting everything bit by bit from the harbours in the sky where these things lurk. By Sunday the 5th of April, all the bits were more or less there, some older, some newer, some different but all possessed of the precious halo new life after the fact of loss gives.<br /><br />But it meant a forced weekend of no work, no writing, but a lot of reading on my so-far-faithful iPhone. My latest reads: Adrian Johns&#x2019; _Piracy, the Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates_ (Chicago, UoChicago, 2010; Kindle eBook), but also Charles Stross&#x2019; latest (#6 in the Merchant Princes Wars), plus, concurrently, the quite uninteresting David Edelman _Infoquake_, and the far more captivating but also uneven Mi&#x00e9;ville _The City and the City_, as well as the relentlessly dreary _Drood_ by Simmons. The latter, a *long* take on Dicken&#x2019;s wildly weird Mystery of Edwin Drood (a right companion to the magnificent _Our Mutual Friend_), seems to add what is not needed to a narrative whose sole interest lies in the historical, not the fictive. Then again, my wife is a Victorianist, and inter alia, her speciality includes Dickens, so by osmosis (and some study done during my own literary days getting my PhD at Berkeley), I have come to some understanding of Dickens and am fascinated by his life &amp; times, though I find myself more fixed by the present&#x2019;s formation of the future and by the past&#x2019;s comprehension of the present, than by the Victorian past itself. <br /><br />(And of course, I have often enjoyed reading steampunk, but like all such things, quality depends less on formal genre adherence and more on the nature of the story and its writing itself: quality is the pleasure one derives from the text, and that pleasure has some relation to genre but it is not identical to it.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6317826453723897490?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2010-04-08T16:10:47+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.986&r2=1.987 Delta lines: +12 -8 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2010-05-07 11:02:41+0000 1.986 +++ rss20.xml 2010-05-09 23:02:43+0000 1.987 @@ -8,6 +8,18 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Much ado about nothing</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=181</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/05/09/much-ado-about-nothing/</link> + <description><p>When I was freshly elected at the <a href="http://council.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org&#8217;s Community Council</a> the <a href="http://www.fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a> approached us with a question related to our <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org">extensions web site</a>. Basically they felt that we should not be hosting non Free Software extensions and requested we take those down otherwise they would open their own extensions site.</p> +<p>For the sake of clarity, extensions are &#8220;plugins&#8221; for OpenOffice.org that work very much like Firefox plugins. They extend the feature set of OpenOffice.org and are a great way to grow our community. I should mention that the number of Free and Open Source Software extensions outgrow by far the number of the proprietary ones: They are in fact more the exception than the rule. The Community Council has been working on a press release which we just released and that you can read on <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=417">this page</a>. I am sorry we could not find a good solution, but we have essentially and respectfully agreed to disagree on a topic which I find quite <em>unimportant</em>. Shortly after I posted the announcement on behalf of the OpenOffice.org project, I received a flurry of emails, both satisfied and unsatisfied, both public and private.</p> +<p>As for my very own, personal opinion, I do have the highest respect and regard for the Free Software Foundation and count myself as one of their most fervent supporters. But I would have hoped that they understand the merit of prioritizing their agenda items and the timing of their actions. When the FSF approached the OpenOffice.org project via our Community Council we were shaken by the buyout of our main sponsor, Sun Microsystems, and had to reassure both our contributors, our users, and perhaps ourselves as well. The request from the FSF caught us off-guard and although we dealt with it with the utmost attention, I could not help but think that the folks over there in Boston must be living in another dimension. I got the feeling they were like a bunch of officiers from the logistics department of an army who would stop everything on the wake of a war just because the markings underneath the trucks have not been properly painted.</p> +<p>Seriously, did they have nothing better to do ? Asking questions on the future of our project? On the ODF standard? On how the new main sponsor thought of its future leadership? On the changing grounds of FOSS vs. proprietary software in the context of the emergence of cloud computing? Really, did they have nothing on their plate besides picking the five proprietary extensions on the OpenOffice.org website and make a whole cheese out of it? Now the FSF seems busy creating <a href="http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List">another extensions website</a>, which I can&#8217;t help finding useful for OpenOffice.org, as it is just a second &#8220;app store&#8221; for our users and a second venue for our developers. Congratulations, FSF, you know how to pick your fights.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=181&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_181" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 17:46:22 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Total victory for open source software in a patent lawsuit | opensource.com</title> <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-7090739090250189647</guid> <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/05/total-victory-for-open-source-software.html</link> @@ -172,14 +184,6 @@ </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/Mc777FsxZ2Q" height="1" width="1" /></description> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:17:38 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Yet another HDD crash....</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6317826453723897490</guid> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/yet-another-hdd-crash.html</link> - <description>I guess it must have been last year but maybe it was longer ago than that. But my MacBook Pro (July 2007) crashed again, to the point where the HD was unreadable. Fortunately, I use Apple&#x2019;s Time Machine to guard against this, uhm--surely not--tactical obsolescence, so was able to reinstall everything. But as I had a) lost my ethernet capability (it died in smoke, and I am not kidding: my friend Charles recorded it for immediate posterity) and b) had, to save space, chosen--foolishly--*not* to back up my applications, I had to spend the Friday (death) and weekend following, resurrecting everything bit by bit from the harbours in the sky where these things lurk. By Sunday the 5th of April, all the bits were more or less there, some older, some newer, some different but all possessed of the precious halo new life after the fact of loss gives.<br /><br />But it meant a forced weekend of no work, no writing, but a lot of reading on my so-far-faithful iPhone. My latest reads: Adrian Johns&#x2019; _Piracy, the Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates_ (Chicago, UoChicago, 2010; Kindle eBook), but also Charles Stross&#x2019; latest (#6 in the Merchant Princes Wars), plus, concurrently, the quite uninteresting David Edelman _Infoquake_, and the far more captivating but also uneven Mi&#x00e9;ville _The City and the City_, as well as the relentlessly dreary _Drood_ by Simmons. The latter, a *long* take on Dicken&#x2019;s wildly weird Mystery of Edwin Drood (a right companion to the magnificent _Our Mutual Friend_), seems to add what is not needed to a narrative whose sole interest lies in the historical, not the fictive. Then again, my wife is a Victorianist, and inter alia, her speciality includes Dickens, so by osmosis (and some study done during my own literary days getting my PhD at Berkeley), I have come to some understanding of Dickens and am fascinated by his life &amp; times, though I find myself more fixed by the present&#x2019;s formation of the future and by the past&#x2019;s comprehension of the present, than by the Victorian past itself. <br /><br />(And of course, I have often enjoyed reading steampunk, but like all such things, quality depends less on formal genre adherence and more on the nature of the story and its writing itself: quality is the pleasure one derives from the text, and that pleasure has some relation to genre but it is not identical to it.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6317826453723897490?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></description> - <pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:10:47 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
