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Log: Planet run at Mon Jul 28 19:01:05 BST 2008 File Changes: Directory: /native-lang/www/planet/ =================================== File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.528&r2=1.529 Delta lines: +32 -24 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-07-28 11:59:15+0000 1.528 +++ atom.xml 2008-07-28 17:59:48+0000 1.529 @@ -5,9 +5,38 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2008-07-28T12:00:48+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-07-28T18:01:17+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Microsoftâs road to Canossa</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/</id> + <updated>2008-07-28T14:51:28+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Who would have believed it a few months ago? Who could tell Microsoft would âclarifyâ the coverage of its OSP and extend it to cover the GPL and FOSS developers as well as users? Clearly, pigs might actually fly, <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080725152355696">and Groklaw does think the same way</a>.</p> +<p>As it was not enough, Microsoft also became an arch-sponsor of the Apache Foundation and paying a decent sum of money as sponsorship fees. IIS anyone? And wait, good news never come along. According to the guidelines of the OASIS Consortium, a member of any Technical Committee that is registered for more than 60 days in this committee automatically neutralizes its own IPR and cannot litigate against any member of the said committee, nor against any implementor, nor user of the standard at hand. In that case, that would be ODF. OOXML anyone?</p> +<p>Of course, there are drawbacks; the OSP still has many flaws, one of them being that it only covers the present version of the spec, and that nobody knows exactly what it refers to (Ecma 376?MS Office 2007 OOXML? The grand paraphernalia otherwise known as ISO/DIS 29500?). Another one is that it âonlyâ allows you to implement the spec, and does not cover you if you modify it. Also, the OSP does not and will not change the flawed standardization processes that have led to the creation of an ISO standard called OOXML. In fact, many things are left as they are, and yet, it feels like so many other things have changed in less than a week.</p> +<p>Perhaps what is changing the IT industry is also changing Microsoft? Perhaps the inroads of OpenOffice.org, crowned and adorned several times this year (heck, that&#8217;s the year of the 3.0!), the ineluctable long march of Mozilla Firefox, the long agony of the â.docâ that has started with ODF and is only beginning to show thanks to many governments worldwide and more recently, the NATO, perhaps all this, and all the shame and negativity are starting to come back to Microsoft. Am I naive? No. On the long run, Redmond has no other choice to open up or die.</p> +<p>This is where we stand, at the edge of the foam, as the tidal waves of change are soaking up the sands of idleness. Of course, it&#8217;s a tidal movement, so the sands fight it off and the waves do sometimes recede. When they do, they usually leave a clear and white track of foam behind them. This is where the industry finds itself, not knowing if it should go back to the illusory safety of the shore or if it should rather take on the ocean, blissfully feeling the call of the horizon and the sweet bites of the fresh water flowing all around it, then going away to better come back.</p> +<p>Oh, there is to be sure much left to do for Microsoft to embrace the competition and change. I have heard today that many out there are still locked into the proprietary platforms trap. An example of this is what&#8217;s happening right now at <a href="http://www.boc.cn/cn/static/index.html">the Bank of China</a>. This bank recently upgraded its systems to what appears to be an all Microsoft environment. As a result, its customers are only able to perform their banking operations through the good old Internet Explorer. Wake up, folks. We&#8217;re in 2008 and such things should have stopped a long time ago. But I don&#8217;t see the lock-in effect being lift up by Microsoft any time soon.</p> +<p>So I was thinking that perhaps the good way to end up this post was to point to the excellent <a href="http://opensource.org/node/352">Michael Tiemann&#8217;s blog</a>. I think Michael has devised some excellent proposals to Microsoft, and I could only wish for the same goals Michael is prescribing. Until then, I feel I should as a gracious gesture apologizing for my latest post about the OSP and the RAND license terms. What I wrote was absolutely true at that time, but I shall now leave it to Microsoft the duty to correct the impressions Ben Henrion and anyone who asked for the license terms for OOXML got when they received the answer from Redmond&#8217;s legal department.</p> +<p>The road to Canossa has just started&#8230;</p> +<p><br clear="left" /></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=85&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_85" 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>2008-07-28T18:01:12+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="utf-8"> <title type="html">Pros and Cons with Zero Yen Office Software</title> <link href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7336837/"/> @@ -77,7 +106,7 @@ <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>2008-07-27T00:00:41+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-07-28T18:01:12+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -248,7 +277,7 @@ <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>2008-07-27T00:00:41+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-07-28T18:01:12+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -271,25 +300,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Newsletter in Danish</title> - <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/openofficeorg-newsletter-in-danish.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-2243317390909120212</id> - <updated>2008-06-26T21:41:19+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">The newsletter is on the streets now: -Text edition: http://da.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=nyhedsbrev&amp;msgNo=51 -PDF-Edition: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008Juli.pdf</content> - <author> - <name>Leif Lodahl</name> - <email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email> - <uri>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2008-07-25T00:00:56+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.528&r2=1.529 Delta lines: +26 -18 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-07-28 11:59:15+0000 1.528 +++ index.html 2008-07-28 17:59:48+0000 1.529 @@ -28,8 +28,33 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: July 28, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: July 28, 2008 06:01 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>July 28, 2008</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/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/";> +Microsoftâs road to Canossa</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Who would have believed it a few months ago? Who could tell Microsoft would âclarifyâ the coverage of its OSP and extend it to cover the GPL and FOSS developers as well as users? Clearly, pigs might actually fly, <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080725152355696";>and Groklaw does think the same way</a>.</p> +<p>As it was not enough, Microsoft also became an arch-sponsor of the Apache Foundation and paying a decent sum of money as sponsorship fees. IIS anyone? And wait, good news never come along. According to the guidelines of the OASIS Consortium, a member of any Technical Committee that is registered for more than 60 days in this committee automatically neutralizes its own IPR and cannot litigate against any member of the said committee, nor against any implementor, nor user of the standard at hand. In that case, that would be ODF. OOXML anyone?</p> +<p>Of course, there are drawbacks; the OSP still has many flaws, one of them being that it only covers the present version of the spec, and that nobody knows exactly what it refers to (Ecma 376?MS Office 2007 OOXML? The grand paraphernalia otherwise known as ISO/DIS 29500?). Another one is that it âonlyâ allows you to implement the spec, and does not cover you if you modify it. Also, the OSP does not and will not change the flawed standardization processes that have led to the creation of an ISO standard called OOXML. In fact, many things are left as they are, and yet, it feels like so many other things have changed in less than a week.</p> +<p>Perhaps what is changing the IT industry is also changing Microsoft? Perhaps the inroads of OpenOffice.org, crowned and adorned several times this year (heck, that’s the year of the 3.0!), the ineluctable long march of Mozilla Firefox, the long agony of the â.docâ that has started with ODF and is only beginning to show thanks to many governments worldwide and more recently, the NATO, perhaps all this, and all the shame and negativity are starting to come back to Microsoft. Am I naive? No. On the long run, Redmond has no other choice to open up or die.</p> +<p>This is where we stand, at the edge of the foam, as the tidal waves of change are soaking up the sands of idleness. Of course, it’s a tidal movement, so the sands fight it off and the waves do sometimes recede. When they do, they usually leave a clear and white track of foam behind them. This is where the industry finds itself, not knowing if it should go back to the illusory safety of the shore or if it should rather take on the ocean, blissfully feeling the call of the horizon and the sweet bites of the fresh water flowing all around it, then going away to better come back.</p> +<p>Oh, there is to be sure much left to do for Microsoft to embrace the competition and change. I have heard today that many out there are still locked into the proprietary platforms trap. An example of this is what’s happening right now at <a href="http://www.boc.cn/cn/static/index.html";>the Bank of China</a>. This bank recently upgraded its systems to what appears to be an all Microsoft environment. As a result, its customers are only able to perform their banking operations through the good old Internet Explorer. Wake up, folks. We’re in 2008 and such things should have stopped a long time ago. But I don’t see the lock-in effect being lift up by Microsoft any time soon.</p> +<p>So I was thinking that perhaps the good way to end up this post was to point to the excellent <a href="http://opensource.org/node/352";>Michael Tiemann’s blog</a>. I think Michael has devised some excellent proposals to Microsoft, and I could only wish for the same goals Michael is prescribing. Until then, I feel I should as a gracious gesture apologizing for my latest post about the OSP and the RAND license terms. What I wrote was absolutely true at that time, but I shall now leave it to Microsoft the duty to correct the impressions Ben Henrion and anyone who asked for the license terms for OOXML got when they received the answer from Redmond’s legal department.</p> +<p>The road to Canossa has just started…</p> +<p><br clear="left" /></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=85&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_85" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/";>by Charles at July 28, 2008 02:51 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>July 25, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp"; title="Hirano, Kazunari"> @@ -258,23 +283,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>June 26, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog"> -Leif Lodahl</a> : -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/openofficeorg-newsletter-in-danish.html";> -OpenOffice.org Newsletter in Danish</a> -</h3> -<p> -The newsletter is on the streets now: -Text edition: http://da.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=nyhedsbrev&msgNo=51 -PDF-Edition: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008Juli.pdf</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/openofficeorg-newsletter-in-danish.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at June 26, 2008 09:41 PM BST</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://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.528&r2=1.529 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-07-28 11:59:15+0000 1.528 +++ opml.xml 2008-07-28 17:59:48+0000 1.529 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Native Language Confederation Planet</title> - <dateModified>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:00:48 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:01:17 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Native Language Confederation</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.103&r2=1.104 Delta lines: +17 -10 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-07-25 05:59:10+0000 1.103 +++ rss10.xml 2008-07-28 17:59:48+0000 1.104 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7336837/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7031162270599914558" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/19/reading-list-for-a-rainy-july-day/"; /> @@ -22,11 +23,26 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1168214/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/02/whats-hot-this-summer/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-5664415027484319032" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-2243317390909120212" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: Microsoftâs road to Canossa</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/</link> + <content:encoded><p>Who would have believed it a few months ago? Who could tell Microsoft would âclarifyâ the coverage of its OSP and extend it to cover the GPL and FOSS developers as well as users? Clearly, pigs might actually fly, <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080725152355696">and Groklaw does think the same way</a>.</p> +<p>As it was not enough, Microsoft also became an arch-sponsor of the Apache Foundation and paying a decent sum of money as sponsorship fees. IIS anyone? And wait, good news never come along. According to the guidelines of the OASIS Consortium, a member of any Technical Committee that is registered for more than 60 days in this committee automatically neutralizes its own IPR and cannot litigate against any member of the said committee, nor against any implementor, nor user of the standard at hand. In that case, that would be ODF. OOXML anyone?</p> +<p>Of course, there are drawbacks; the OSP still has many flaws, one of them being that it only covers the present version of the spec, and that nobody knows exactly what it refers to (Ecma 376?MS Office 2007 OOXML? The grand paraphernalia otherwise known as ISO/DIS 29500?). Another one is that it âonlyâ allows you to implement the spec, and does not cover you if you modify it. Also, the OSP does not and will not change the flawed standardization processes that have led to the creation of an ISO standard called OOXML. In fact, many things are left as they are, and yet, it feels like so many other things have changed in less than a week.</p> +<p>Perhaps what is changing the IT industry is also changing Microsoft? Perhaps the inroads of OpenOffice.org, crowned and adorned several times this year (heck, that&#8217;s the year of the 3.0!), the ineluctable long march of Mozilla Firefox, the long agony of the â.docâ that has started with ODF and is only beginning to show thanks to many governments worldwide and more recently, the NATO, perhaps all this, and all the shame and negativity are starting to come back to Microsoft. Am I naive? No. On the long run, Redmond has no other choice to open up or die.</p> +<p>This is where we stand, at the edge of the foam, as the tidal waves of change are soaking up the sands of idleness. Of course, it&#8217;s a tidal movement, so the sands fight it off and the waves do sometimes recede. When they do, they usually leave a clear and white track of foam behind them. This is where the industry finds itself, not knowing if it should go back to the illusory safety of the shore or if it should rather take on the ocean, blissfully feeling the call of the horizon and the sweet bites of the fresh water flowing all around it, then going away to better come back.</p> +<p>Oh, there is to be sure much left to do for Microsoft to embrace the competition and change. I have heard today that many out there are still locked into the proprietary platforms trap. An example of this is what&#8217;s happening right now at <a href="http://www.boc.cn/cn/static/index.html">the Bank of China</a>. This bank recently upgraded its systems to what appears to be an all Microsoft environment. As a result, its customers are only able to perform their banking operations through the good old Internet Explorer. Wake up, folks. We&#8217;re in 2008 and such things should have stopped a long time ago. But I don&#8217;t see the lock-in effect being lift up by Microsoft any time soon.</p> +<p>So I was thinking that perhaps the good way to end up this post was to point to the excellent <a href="http://opensource.org/node/352">Michael Tiemann&#8217;s blog</a>. I think Michael has devised some excellent proposals to Microsoft, and I could only wish for the same goals Michael is prescribing. Until then, I feel I should as a gracious gesture apologizing for my latest post about the OSP and the RAND license terms. What I wrote was absolutely true at that time, but I shall now leave it to Microsoft the duty to correct the impressions Ben Henrion and anyone who asked for the license terms for OOXML got when they received the answer from Redmond&#8217;s legal department.</p> +<p>The road to Canossa has just started&#8230;</p> +<p><br clear="left" /></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=85&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_85" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-07-28T14:51:28+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7336837/";> <title>Kazunari Hirano: Pros and Cons with Zero Yen Office Software</title> <link>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7336837/</link> @@ -178,14 +194,5 @@ <dc:date>2008-06-29T21:34:51+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-2243317390909120212"> - <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice.org Newsletter in Danish</title> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/openofficeorg-newsletter-in-danish.html</link> - <content:encoded>The newsletter is on the streets now: -Text edition: http://da.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=nyhedsbrev&amp;msgNo=51 -PDF-Edition: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008Juli.pdf</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-06-26T21:41:19+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.104&r2=1.105 Delta lines: +17 -10 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-07-25 05:59:11+0000 1.104 +++ rss20.xml 2008-07-28 17:59:48+0000 1.105 @@ -8,6 +8,23 @@ <description>Native Language Confederation Planet - http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Microsoftâs road to Canossa</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/</link> + <description><p>Who would have believed it a few months ago? Who could tell Microsoft would âclarifyâ the coverage of its OSP and extend it to cover the GPL and FOSS developers as well as users? Clearly, pigs might actually fly, <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080725152355696">and Groklaw does think the same way</a>.</p> +<p>As it was not enough, Microsoft also became an arch-sponsor of the Apache Foundation and paying a decent sum of money as sponsorship fees. IIS anyone? And wait, good news never come along. According to the guidelines of the OASIS Consortium, a member of any Technical Committee that is registered for more than 60 days in this committee automatically neutralizes its own IPR and cannot litigate against any member of the said committee, nor against any implementor, nor user of the standard at hand. In that case, that would be ODF. OOXML anyone?</p> +<p>Of course, there are drawbacks; the OSP still has many flaws, one of them being that it only covers the present version of the spec, and that nobody knows exactly what it refers to (Ecma 376?MS Office 2007 OOXML? The grand paraphernalia otherwise known as ISO/DIS 29500?). Another one is that it âonlyâ allows you to implement the spec, and does not cover you if you modify it. Also, the OSP does not and will not change the flawed standardization processes that have led to the creation of an ISO standard called OOXML. In fact, many things are left as they are, and yet, it feels like so many other things have changed in less than a week.</p> +<p>Perhaps what is changing the IT industry is also changing Microsoft? Perhaps the inroads of OpenOffice.org, crowned and adorned several times this year (heck, that&#8217;s the year of the 3.0!), the ineluctable long march of Mozilla Firefox, the long agony of the â.docâ that has started with ODF and is only beginning to show thanks to many governments worldwide and more recently, the NATO, perhaps all this, and all the shame and negativity are starting to come back to Microsoft. Am I naive? No. On the long run, Redmond has no other choice to open up or die.</p> +<p>This is where we stand, at the edge of the foam, as the tidal waves of change are soaking up the sands of idleness. Of course, it&#8217;s a tidal movement, so the sands fight it off and the waves do sometimes recede. When they do, they usually leave a clear and white track of foam behind them. This is where the industry finds itself, not knowing if it should go back to the illusory safety of the shore or if it should rather take on the ocean, blissfully feeling the call of the horizon and the sweet bites of the fresh water flowing all around it, then going away to better come back.</p> +<p>Oh, there is to be sure much left to do for Microsoft to embrace the competition and change. I have heard today that many out there are still locked into the proprietary platforms trap. An example of this is what&#8217;s happening right now at <a href="http://www.boc.cn/cn/static/index.html">the Bank of China</a>. This bank recently upgraded its systems to what appears to be an all Microsoft environment. As a result, its customers are only able to perform their banking operations through the good old Internet Explorer. Wake up, folks. We&#8217;re in 2008 and such things should have stopped a long time ago. But I don&#8217;t see the lock-in effect being lift up by Microsoft any time soon.</p> +<p>So I was thinking that perhaps the good way to end up this post was to point to the excellent <a href="http://opensource.org/node/352">Michael Tiemann&#8217;s blog</a>. I think Michael has devised some excellent proposals to Microsoft, and I could only wish for the same goals Michael is prescribing. Until then, I feel I should as a gracious gesture apologizing for my latest post about the OSP and the RAND license terms. What I wrote was absolutely true at that time, but I shall now leave it to Microsoft the duty to correct the impressions Ben Henrion and anyone who asked for the license terms for OOXML got when they received the answer from Redmond&#8217;s legal department.</p> +<p>The road to Canossa has just started&#8230;</p> +<p><br clear="left" /></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=85&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_85" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:51:28 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Kazunari Hirano: Pros and Cons with Zero Yen Office Software</title> <guid>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7336837/</guid> <link>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7336837/</link> @@ -163,16 +180,6 @@ <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:34:51 +0000</pubDate> <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leif Lodahl)</author> </item> -<item> - <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice.org Newsletter in Danish</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-2243317390909120212</guid> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/06/openofficeorg-newsletter-in-danish.html</link> - <description>The newsletter is on the streets now: -Text edition: http://da.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=nyhedsbrev&amp;msgNo=51 -PDF-Edition: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008Juli.pdf</description> - <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:41:19 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leif Lodahl)</author> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
