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Log: Planet run at Fri Apr 3 18:00:33 BST 2009 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=1.1495&r2=1.1496 Delta lines: +35 -150 ---------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-04-03 11:01:55+0000 1.1495 +++ atom.xml 2009-04-03 17:01:51+0000 1.1496 @@ -5,10 +5,39 @@ <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>2009-04-03T11:00:41+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-04-03T17:00:37+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Links for the Beginning of Spring</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/</id> + <updated>2009-04-03T15:21:28+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><ul> +<li><a href="http://www.nuxified.org/article/overview_floss_email_client">I happen to write articles on email clients</a>. And this time, my friend <a href="http://standblog.org/blog/">Tristan Nitot</a> is not going to like it.</li> +<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Improving_The_Digital_Signature_Feature">Interesting description</a> of one of the upcoming features in OpenOffice.org: Secured digital signatures. Guess what, we will soon be the only ones to have them!</li> +<li>An excellent exemple on how native-language projects cooperate inside OpenOffice.org. <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CJK_Group/Minutes">Here</a>, you can see the Chinese, Japanese and Korean communities working to tackle common problems.My thanks to the teams and especially to Hirano Kazunari!</li> +<li>This time, Tristan will approve that one: <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/30/1438213">command line comes to the Firefox bar</a>, integrating completely Ubiquity to Firefox!</li> +<li>Unfortunate but expected, the French Minister of <strike>the Record Labels</strike> Culture, strongly supported by the Government has forced the Parliament to vote <a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en">the outrageous legislation on &#8220;illegal music downloading&#8221;</a>, treating 14 million of her own citizens like pirates. Here&#8217;s someone who must have some clear picture on what &#8220;serving private interests in detriment of the public good&#8221; means.</li> +<li>I have been asked this several times already this week, so let me clarify something: I do not work for Sun, nor for IBM and I do not know anything else about the buyout rumourthan what the press says.</li> +</ul> +<p>Enjoy your week-end!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=120&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_120" 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>2009-04-03T17:00:34+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Update of the new OOoDeV instance</title> <link href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1370235/"/> <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1370235/</id> @@ -22,7 +51,7 @@ <title type="html">andreasma_at_ooo</title> <link rel="self" href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss"/> <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss</id> - <updated>2009-04-03T11:00:39+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-04-03T17:00:35+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -40,7 +69,7 @@ <title type="html">andreasma_at_ooo</title> <link rel="self" href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss"/> <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss</id> - <updated>2009-04-03T11:00:39+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-04-03T17:00:35+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -65,7 +94,7 @@ <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>2009-04-01T11:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-04-03T17:00:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -84,7 +113,7 @@ <title type="html">andreasma_at_ooo</title> <link rel="self" href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss"/> <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss</id> - <updated>2009-04-03T11:00:39+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-04-03T17:00:35+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -224,7 +253,7 @@ <title type="html">andreasma_at_ooo</title> <link rel="self" href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss"/> <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss</id> - <updated>2009-04-03T11:00:39+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-04-03T17:00:35+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -444,148 +473,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Portable at the Cebit 2009</title> - <link href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1351705/"/> - <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1351705/</id> - <updated>2009-03-03T20:46:04+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">On Sunday, the 8th of March I will give a presentation about OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0.1 at the Cebit 2009. My presentation take place in the OpenSouce Forum / Hall 6 at 1:00 pm. -If you are not at the Cebit on Sunday, you're able to watch my presentation via streaming: http://www.linux-magazin.de/events/cebit_open_source_forum</content> - <author> - <name>Andreas Mantke</name> - <uri>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">andreasma_at_ooo</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss"/> - <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss</id> - <updated>2009-04-03T11:00:39+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">Translating OpenOffice.org extensions</title> - <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/03/translating-openofficeorg-extensions.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7888011759649598452</id> - <updated>2009-03-03T14:44:04+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">One very important feature in OpenOffice.org is the ability to extend the functionality of the program with extensions. Most public extensions can be found in the official extension repository here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/.It is very important for the community, that as many extensions as possible are localized or translated into as many languages as possible. There is a tool</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> - <subtitle type="html">OpenOffice.org, open source software and open standards. These are the three things you can read about on my blog. I'll try to keep you updated on news and events in Denmark. -Okay, sometimes you can read about Lotus Notes too</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2009-03-31T23:01:03+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Thirty years old and still no Tom-Tomâ¦</title> - <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/</id> - <updated>2009-03-03T13:35:56+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/HADOPI" title="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out"><img src="http://media.laquadrature.net/Quadrature_black-out_HADOPI_728x90px.gif" border="0" alt="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out" /></a></p> -<p>Today I am thirty. And today, I have decided I would post a blog that would not be different from the my other posts. How&#8217;s that for genuine originality? So today&#8217;s topic will be a round-up of news on OpenDocument Format (ODF). It has been a long time I haven&#8217;t updated this area.</p> -<p>&nbsp;</p> -<ul> -<li> -<p>ODF 1.2 is well underway. The arrival of a flurry of new members inside the ODF Technical Committee who have illustrated themselves as proponents of OOXML is a bit fun to watch I must say. But I have to command the general serenity of the Committee and its chairs, Rob Weir and Michael Brauer for their quiet and effective management of the proceedings. I think the only thing that is to be hoped for is that we can finish the completion of this ODF sub-version. Also, and of some interest, I can only recommend <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/">the reading of the archives of the Committee&#8217;s discussions online</a> where interesting concepts on extensions and conformance are being discussed.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>Some « lighter » news but as serious: the future of ODF does not just depend on the OASIS ODF Technical Committee. It depends on you. You are encouraged to provide ideas for the future versions of ODF « ODF-Next » . The Committee has wanted this to be inclusive of everyone&#8217;s participation as explained <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/news/oasis-welcomes-input-for-odf-next">here</a>.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>We did know that at some point in time, Microsoft Office would support ODF. It seems the wait is <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/10/22/announcing-service-pack-2-sp2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system.aspx">almost over these days</a>. You will recall I was originally very supportive of the idea of Microsoft Office natively supporting ODF; then, I took some time reading the fine print and I grew a bit wary of what the Microsoft engineers were saying about the limits their implementation of ODF would be constrained to. At this point in time we do not have the Service Pack 2 of Microsoft Office 2007. What we do know however, is a couple of things that got me thinking: ODF support will only be available in the latest, patched version of Microsoft Office 2007. It will have some limitations and the feature will not be put prominently in the hands of the users, so to speak. I wonder why ODF shouldn&#8217;t be Microsoft Office&#8217;s default format or if the default configuration would be more effective with an icon on the user interface. After all, ODF is an ISO standard and people, governments, businesses demand it (at this stage it&#8217;s not even clear if OOXML was even requested by anyone who was not already part of Ecma and had vested interests in siding on with Microsoft&#8230;), so why not make that jump?</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>This also got me thinking: <em>ODF support in MS Office is a good idea.</em> <span>Don&#8217;t get me wrong on this. I wish however were extended to other products of the Microsoft stack, such as Sharepoint, Microsoft Dynamics and even Microsoft Internet Explorer. Why? I do not advocate this strategic move with ulterior motives of having Microsoft fail. Precisely not: The only way for Microsoft to survive is to embrace Open Standards, transparency and perhaps Open Source in some way. So let Microsoft do it the whole way. If the market demands ODF, let it have it and let it have a real choice, where Microsoft would actually be a compelling one for good. I am confident Microsoft folks are having some discussion on this internally. But there is at the very least two sides inside the company, and any attempt to play well with the Open Source Community (for the sake of not playing fair with the Free Software part of the community) is unfortunately matched by opposite and hostile moves.</span></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <span>Which brings me to the Microsoft vs. Tom-Tom case. This is one more story where software patents hamper innovation. Add to this the general timing of the case: Tom-Tom is an European company operating in the automotive industry. You can understand now why the European Union has to stand firmly by its automotive sector&#8230;</span></p> -</li> -</ul> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=117&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_117" 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>2009-04-01T11:00:34+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">Lorem Ipsum Generator now in italian</title> - <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/03/lorem-ipsum-generator-now-in-italian.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-1825116170682443906</id> - <updated>2009-03-01T12:51:48+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">Thanks to Maurizio Salzano the extension is now also localized into italian.http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/Lorem_ipsum_generator</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> - <subtitle type="html">OpenOffice.org, open source software and open standards. These are the three things you can read about on my blog. I'll try to keep you updated on news and events in Denmark. -Okay, sometimes you can read about Lotus Notes too</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2009-03-31T23:01:03+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">Danish OpenOffice.org newsletter</title> - <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/02/danish-openofficeorg-newsletter.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-8709246284977624299</id> - <updated>2009-02-27T22:11:41+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">Danish OpenOffice.org newsletter is out: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2009Marts.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> - <subtitle type="html">OpenOffice.org, open source software and open standards. These are the three things you can read about on my blog. I'll try to keep you updated on news and events in Denmark. -Okay, sometimes you can read about Lotus Notes too</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2009-03-31T23:01:03+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">(Domestic) OpenOffice.org conference in Denmark</title> - <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/02/domestic-openofficeorg-conference-in.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-251576227259935440</id> - <updated>2009-02-27T17:00:17+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">The organization OSL (http://www.osl.dk) is arranging this conference together with the Danish OpenOffice.org community.The conference will be on April 30th. at University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.We will try to cover the story with two tracks, Business and Technical.Open Office - a real alternative Conference in Odense 30/4-09: Track 1: Business9.00 - 10.00 Arrival,</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> - <subtitle type="html">OpenOffice.org, open source software and open standards. These are the three things you can read about on my blog. I'll try to keep you updated on news and events in Denmark. -Okay, sometimes you can read about Lotus Notes too</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2009-03-31T23:01:03+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=1.1495&r2=1.1496 Delta lines: +26 -111 ---------------------- --- index.html 2009-04-03 11:01:55+0000 1.1495 +++ index.html 2009-04-03 17:01:51+0000 1.1496 @@ -29,8 +29,33 @@ <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: April 03, 2009 11:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: April 03, 2009 05:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>April 03, 2009</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/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/";> +Links for the Beginning of Spring</a> +</h3> +<p> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://www.nuxified.org/article/overview_floss_email_client";>I happen to write articles on email clients</a>. And this time, my friend <a href="http://standblog.org/blog/";>Tristan Nitot</a> is not going to like it.</li> +<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Improving_The_Digital_Signature_Feature";>Interesting description</a> of one of the upcoming features in OpenOffice.org: Secured digital signatures. Guess what, we will soon be the only ones to have them!</li> +<li>An excellent exemple on how native-language projects cooperate inside OpenOffice.org. <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CJK_Group/Minutes";>Here</a>, you can see the Chinese, Japanese and Korean communities working to tackle common problems.My thanks to the teams and especially to Hirano Kazunari!</li> +<li>This time, Tristan will approve that one: <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/30/1438213";>command line comes to the Firefox bar</a>, integrating completely Ubiquity to Firefox!</li> +<li>Unfortunate but expected, the French Minister of <strike>the Record Labels</strike> Culture, strongly supported by the Government has forced the Parliament to vote <a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en";>the outrageous legislation on “illegal music downloading”</a>, treating 14 million of her own citizens like pirates. Here’s someone who must have some clear picture on what “serving private interests in detriment of the public good” means.</li> +<li>I have been asked this several times already this week, so let me clarify something: I do not work for Sun, nor for IBM and I do not know anything else about the buyout rumourthan what the press says.</li> +</ul> +<p>Enjoy your week-end!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=120&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_120" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/";>by Charles at April 03, 2009 03:21 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>March 28, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/"; title="andreasma_at_ooo"> @@ -410,116 +435,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>March 03, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/"; title="andreasma_at_ooo"> -Andreas Mantke</a> : -<a href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1351705/";> -OpenOffice.org Portable at the Cebit 2009</a> -</h3> -<p> -On Sunday, the 8th of March I will give a presentation about OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0.1 at the Cebit 2009. My presentation take place in the OpenSouce Forum / Hall 6 at 1:00 pm. -If you are not at the Cebit on Sunday, you're able to watch my presentation via streaming: http://www.linux-magazin.de/events/cebit_open_source_forum</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1351705/";>by andreasma at March 03, 2009 08:46 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog"> -Leif Lodahl</a> : -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/03/translating-openofficeorg-extensions.html";> -Translating OpenOffice.org extensions</a> -</h3> -<p> -One very important feature in OpenOffice.org is the ability to extend the functionality of the program with extensions. Most public extensions can be found in the official extension repository here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/.It is very important for the community, that as many extensions as possible are localized or translated into as many languages as possible. There is a tool</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/03/translating-openofficeorg-extensions.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([email protected]) at March 03, 2009 02:44 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<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/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/";> -Thirty years old and still no Tom-Tomâ¦</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/HADOPI"; title="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out"><img src="http://media.laquadrature.net/Quadrature_black-out_HADOPI_728x90px.gif"; border="0" alt="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out" /></a></p> -<p>Today I am thirty. And today, I have decided I would post a blog that would not be different from the my other posts. How’s that for genuine originality? So today’s topic will be a round-up of news on OpenDocument Format (ODF). It has been a long time I haven’t updated this area.</p> -<p> </p> -<ul> -<li> -<p>ODF 1.2 is well underway. The arrival of a flurry of new members inside the ODF Technical Committee who have illustrated themselves as proponents of OOXML is a bit fun to watch I must say. But I have to command the general serenity of the Committee and its chairs, Rob Weir and Michael Brauer for their quiet and effective management of the proceedings. I think the only thing that is to be hoped for is that we can finish the completion of this ODF sub-version. Also, and of some interest, I can only recommend <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/";>the reading of the archives of the Committee’s discussions online</a> where interesting concepts on extensions and conformance are being discussed.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>Some « lighter » news but as serious: the future of ODF does not just depend on the OASIS ODF Technical Committee. It depends on you. You are encouraged to provide ideas for the future versions of ODF « ODF-Next » . The Committee has wanted this to be inclusive of everyone’s participation as explained <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/news/oasis-welcomes-input-for-odf-next";>here</a>.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>We did know that at some point in time, Microsoft Office would support ODF. It seems the wait is <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/10/22/announcing-service-pack-2-sp2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system.aspx";>almost over these days</a>. You will recall I was originally very supportive of the idea of Microsoft Office natively supporting ODF; then, I took some time reading the fine print and I grew a bit wary of what the Microsoft engineers were saying about the limits their implementation of ODF would be constrained to. At this point in time we do not have the Service Pack 2 of Microsoft Office 2007. What we do know however, is a couple of things that got me thinking: ODF support will only be available in the latest, patched version of Microsoft Office 2007. It will have some limitations and the feature will not be put prominently in the hands of the users, so to speak. I wonder why ODF shouldn’t be Microsoft Office’s default format or if the default configuration would be more effective with an icon on the user interface. After all, ODF is an ISO standard and people, governments, businesses demand it (at this stage it’s not even clear if OOXML was even requested by anyone who was not already part of Ecma and had vested interests in siding on with Microsoft…), so why not make that jump?</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>This also got me thinking: <em>ODF support in MS Office is a good idea.</em> <span>Don’t get me wrong on this. I wish however were extended to other products of the Microsoft stack, such as Sharepoint, Microsoft Dynamics and even Microsoft Internet Explorer. Why? I do not advocate this strategic move with ulterior motives of having Microsoft fail. Precisely not: The only way for Microsoft to survive is to embrace Open Standards, transparency and perhaps Open Source in some way. So let Microsoft do it the whole way. If the market demands ODF, let it have it and let it have a real choice, where Microsoft would actually be a compelling one for good. I am confident Microsoft folks are having some discussion on this internally. But there is at the very least two sides inside the company, and any attempt to play well with the Open Source Community (for the sake of not playing fair with the Free Software part of the community) is unfortunately matched by opposite and hostile moves.</span></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <span>Which brings me to the Microsoft vs. Tom-Tom case. This is one more story where software patents hamper innovation. Add to this the general timing of the case: Tom-Tom is an European company operating in the automotive industry. You can understand now why the European Union has to stand firmly by its automotive sector…</span></p> -</li> -</ul> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=117&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_117" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/";>by Charles at March 03, 2009 01:35 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>March 01, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog"> -Leif Lodahl</a> : -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/03/lorem-ipsum-generator-now-in-italian.html";> -Lorem Ipsum Generator now in italian</a> -</h3> -<p> -Thanks to Maurizio Salzano the extension is now also localized into italian.http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/Lorem_ipsum_generator</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/03/lorem-ipsum-generator-now-in-italian.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([email protected]) at March 01, 2009 12:51 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>February 27, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog"> -Leif Lodahl</a> : -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/02/danish-openofficeorg-newsletter.html";> -Danish OpenOffice.org newsletter</a> -</h3> -<p> -Danish OpenOffice.org newsletter is out: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2009Marts.pdf</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/02/danish-openofficeorg-newsletter.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([email protected]) at February 27, 2009 10:11 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog"> -Leif Lodahl</a> : -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/02/domestic-openofficeorg-conference-in.html";> -(Domestic) OpenOffice.org conference in Denmark</a> -</h3> -<p> -The organization OSL (http://www.osl.dk) is arranging this conference together with the Danish OpenOffice.org community.The conference will be on April 30th. at University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.We will try to cover the story with two tracks, Business and Technical.Open Office - a real alternative Conference in Odense 30/4-09: Track 1: Business9.00 - 10.00 Arrival,</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/02/domestic-openofficeorg-conference-in.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([email protected]) at February 27, 2009 05:00 PM GMT</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=1.1495&r2=1.1496 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-04-03 11:01:56+0000 1.1495 +++ opml.xml 2009-04-03 17:01:51+0000 1.1496 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Native Language Confederation Planet</title> - <dateModified>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:00:42 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:00:37 +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=1.292&r2=1.293 Delta lines: +17 -69 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-03-29 00:01:40+0000 1.292 +++ rss10.xml 2009-04-03 17:01:51+0000 1.293 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1370235/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1368970/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/26/50-million-downloads-and-still-counting/"; /> @@ -27,16 +28,26 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-03-08:/blog/108" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-03-07:/blog/107" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-03-05:/blog/106" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1351705/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7888011759649598452" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-1825116170682443906" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-8709246284977624299" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-251576227259935440" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: Links for the Beginning of Spring</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/</link> + <content:encoded><ul> +<li><a href="http://www.nuxified.org/article/overview_floss_email_client">I happen to write articles on email clients</a>. And this time, my friend <a href="http://standblog.org/blog/">Tristan Nitot</a> is not going to like it.</li> +<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Improving_The_Digital_Signature_Feature">Interesting description</a> of one of the upcoming features in OpenOffice.org: Secured digital signatures. Guess what, we will soon be the only ones to have them!</li> +<li>An excellent exemple on how native-language projects cooperate inside OpenOffice.org. <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CJK_Group/Minutes">Here</a>, you can see the Chinese, Japanese and Korean communities working to tackle common problems.My thanks to the teams and especially to Hirano Kazunari!</li> +<li>This time, Tristan will approve that one: <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/30/1438213">command line comes to the Firefox bar</a>, integrating completely Ubiquity to Firefox!</li> +<li>Unfortunate but expected, the French Minister of <strike>the Record Labels</strike> Culture, strongly supported by the Government has forced the Parliament to vote <a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en">the outrageous legislation on &#8220;illegal music downloading&#8221;</a>, treating 14 million of her own citizens like pirates. Here&#8217;s someone who must have some clear picture on what &#8220;serving private interests in detriment of the public good&#8221; means.</li> +<li>I have been asked this several times already this week, so let me clarify something: I do not work for Sun, nor for IBM and I do not know anything else about the buyout rumourthan what the press says.</li> +</ul> +<p>Enjoy your week-end!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=120&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_120" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-04-03T15:21:28+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1370235/";> <title>Andreas Mantke: Update of the new OOoDeV instance</title> <link>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1370235/</link> @@ -302,68 +313,5 @@ <dc:date>2009-03-05T19:51:13+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>sophi</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1351705/";> - <title>Andreas Mantke: OpenOffice.org Portable at the Cebit 2009</title> - <link>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1351705/</link> - <content:encoded>On Sunday, the 8th of March I will give a presentation about OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0.1 at the Cebit 2009. My presentation take place in the OpenSouce Forum / Hall 6 at 1:00 pm. -If you are not at the Cebit on Sunday, you're able to watch my presentation via streaming: http://www.linux-magazin.de/events/cebit_open_source_forum</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-03-03T20:46:04+00:00</dc:date> -</item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7888011759649598452"> - <title>Leif Lodahl: Translating OpenOffice.org extensions</title> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/03/translating-openofficeorg-extensions.html</link> - <content:encoded>One very important feature in OpenOffice.org is the ability to extend the functionality of the program with extensions. Most public extensions can be found in the official extension repository here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/.It is very important for the community, that as many extensions as possible are localized or translated into as many languages as possible. There is a tool</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-03-03T14:44:04+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/";> - <title>Charles Schulz: Thirty years old and still no Tom-Tomâ¦</title> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/</link> - <content:encoded><p><a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/HADOPI" title="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out"><img src="http://media.laquadrature.net/Quadrature_black-out_HADOPI_728x90px.gif" border="0" alt="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out" /></a></p> -<p>Today I am thirty. And today, I have decided I would post a blog that would not be different from the my other posts. How&#8217;s that for genuine originality? So today&#8217;s topic will be a round-up of news on OpenDocument Format (ODF). It has been a long time I haven&#8217;t updated this area.</p> -<p>&nbsp;</p> -<ul> -<li> -<p>ODF 1.2 is well underway. The arrival of a flurry of new members inside the ODF Technical Committee who have illustrated themselves as proponents of OOXML is a bit fun to watch I must say. But I have to command the general serenity of the Committee and its chairs, Rob Weir and Michael Brauer for their quiet and effective management of the proceedings. I think the only thing that is to be hoped for is that we can finish the completion of this ODF sub-version. Also, and of some interest, I can only recommend <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/">the reading of the archives of the Committee&#8217;s discussions online</a> where interesting concepts on extensions and conformance are being discussed.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>Some « lighter » news but as serious: the future of ODF does not just depend on the OASIS ODF Technical Committee. It depends on you. You are encouraged to provide ideas for the future versions of ODF « ODF-Next » . The Committee has wanted this to be inclusive of everyone&#8217;s participation as explained <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/news/oasis-welcomes-input-for-odf-next">here</a>.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>We did know that at some point in time, Microsoft Office would support ODF. It seems the wait is <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/10/22/announcing-service-pack-2-sp2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system.aspx">almost over these days</a>. You will recall I was originally very supportive of the idea of Microsoft Office natively supporting ODF; then, I took some time reading the fine print and I grew a bit wary of what the Microsoft engineers were saying about the limits their implementation of ODF would be constrained to. At this point in time we do not have the Service Pack 2 of Microsoft Office 2007. What we do know however, is a couple of things that got me thinking: ODF support will only be available in the latest, patched version of Microsoft Office 2007. It will have some limitations and the feature will not be put prominently in the hands of the users, so to speak. I wonder why ODF shouldn&#8217;t be Microsoft Office&#8217;s default format or if the default configuration would be more effective with an icon on the user interface. After all, ODF is an ISO standard and people, governments, businesses demand it (at this stage it&#8217;s not even clear if OOXML was even requested by anyone who was not already part of Ecma and had vested interests in siding on with Microsoft&#8230;), so why not make that jump?</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>This also got me thinking: <em>ODF support in MS Office is a good idea.</em> <span>Don&#8217;t get me wrong on this. I wish however were extended to other products of the Microsoft stack, such as Sharepoint, Microsoft Dynamics and even Microsoft Internet Explorer. Why? I do not advocate this strategic move with ulterior motives of having Microsoft fail. Precisely not: The only way for Microsoft to survive is to embrace Open Standards, transparency and perhaps Open Source in some way. So let Microsoft do it the whole way. If the market demands ODF, let it have it and let it have a real choice, where Microsoft would actually be a compelling one for good. I am confident Microsoft folks are having some discussion on this internally. But there is at the very least two sides inside the company, and any attempt to play well with the Open Source Community (for the sake of not playing fair with the Free Software part of the community) is unfortunately matched by opposite and hostile moves.</span></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <span>Which brings me to the Microsoft vs. Tom-Tom case. This is one more story where software patents hamper innovation. Add to this the general timing of the case: Tom-Tom is an European company operating in the automotive industry. You can understand now why the European Union has to stand firmly by its automotive sector&#8230;</span></p> -</li> -</ul> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=117&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_117" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-03-03T13:35:56+00:00</dc:date> -</item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-1825116170682443906"> - <title>Leif Lodahl: Lorem Ipsum Generator now in italian</title> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/03/lorem-ipsum-generator-now-in-italian.html</link> - <content:encoded>Thanks to Maurizio Salzano the extension is now also localized into italian.http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/Lorem_ipsum_generator</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-03-01T12:51:48+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-8709246284977624299"> - <title>Leif Lodahl: Danish OpenOffice.org newsletter</title> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/02/danish-openofficeorg-newsletter.html</link> - <content:encoded>Danish OpenOffice.org newsletter is out: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2009Marts.pdf</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-02-27T22:11:41+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-251576227259935440"> - <title>Leif Lodahl: (Domestic) OpenOffice.org conference in Denmark</title> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/02/domestic-openofficeorg-conference-in.html</link> - <content:encoded>The organization OSL (http://www.osl.dk) is arranging this conference together with the Danish OpenOffice.org community.The conference will be on April 30th. at University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.We will try to cover the story with two tracks, Business and Technical.Open Office - a real alternative Conference in Odense 30/4-09: Track 1: Business9.00 - 10.00 Arrival,</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-02-27T17:00:17+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=1.293&r2=1.294 Delta lines: +17 -69 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-03-29 00:01:40+0000 1.293 +++ rss20.xml 2009-04-03 17:01:51+0000 1.294 @@ -8,6 +8,23 @@ <description>Native Language Confederation Planet - http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Links for the Beginning of Spring</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/</link> + <description><ul> +<li><a href="http://www.nuxified.org/article/overview_floss_email_client">I happen to write articles on email clients</a>. And this time, my friend <a href="http://standblog.org/blog/">Tristan Nitot</a> is not going to like it.</li> +<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Improving_The_Digital_Signature_Feature">Interesting description</a> of one of the upcoming features in OpenOffice.org: Secured digital signatures. Guess what, we will soon be the only ones to have them!</li> +<li>An excellent exemple on how native-language projects cooperate inside OpenOffice.org. <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CJK_Group/Minutes">Here</a>, you can see the Chinese, Japanese and Korean communities working to tackle common problems.My thanks to the teams and especially to Hirano Kazunari!</li> +<li>This time, Tristan will approve that one: <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/30/1438213">command line comes to the Firefox bar</a>, integrating completely Ubiquity to Firefox!</li> +<li>Unfortunate but expected, the French Minister of <strike>the Record Labels</strike> Culture, strongly supported by the Government has forced the Parliament to vote <a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en">the outrageous legislation on &#8220;illegal music downloading&#8221;</a>, treating 14 million of her own citizens like pirates. Here&#8217;s someone who must have some clear picture on what &#8220;serving private interests in detriment of the public good&#8221; means.</li> +<li>I have been asked this several times already this week, so let me clarify something: I do not work for Sun, nor for IBM and I do not know anything else about the buyout rumourthan what the press says.</li> +</ul> +<p>Enjoy your week-end!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=120&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_120" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:21:28 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Andreas Mantke: Update of the new OOoDeV instance</title> <guid>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1370235/</guid> <link>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1370235/</link> @@ -278,75 +295,6 @@ <p>Toutes les infos sont sur le <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/index.html" hreflang="en">site de la OOoCon</a> du projet Marketing.</p></description> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:51:13 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Andreas Mantke: OpenOffice.org Portable at the Cebit 2009</title> - <guid>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1351705/</guid> - <link>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1351705/</link> - <description>On Sunday, the 8th of March I will give a presentation about OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0.1 at the Cebit 2009. My presentation take place in the OpenSouce Forum / Hall 6 at 1:00 pm. -If you are not at the Cebit on Sunday, you're able to watch my presentation via streaming: http://www.linux-magazin.de/events/cebit_open_source_forum</description> - <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:46:04 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>Leif Lodahl: Translating OpenOffice.org extensions</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7888011759649598452</guid> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/03/translating-openofficeorg-extensions.html</link> - <description>One very important feature in OpenOffice.org is the ability to extend the functionality of the program with extensions. Most public extensions can be found in the official extension repository here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/.It is very important for the community, that as many extensions as possible are localized or translated into as many languages as possible. There is a tool</description> - <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:44:04 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> -</item> -<item> - <title>Charles Schulz: Thirty years old and still no Tom-Tomâ¦</title> - <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/</guid> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/</link> - <description><p><a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/HADOPI" title="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out"><img src="http://media.laquadrature.net/Quadrature_black-out_HADOPI_728x90px.gif" border="0" alt="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out" /></a></p> -<p>Today I am thirty. And today, I have decided I would post a blog that would not be different from the my other posts. How&#8217;s that for genuine originality? So today&#8217;s topic will be a round-up of news on OpenDocument Format (ODF). It has been a long time I haven&#8217;t updated this area.</p> -<p>&nbsp;</p> -<ul> -<li> -<p>ODF 1.2 is well underway. The arrival of a flurry of new members inside the ODF Technical Committee who have illustrated themselves as proponents of OOXML is a bit fun to watch I must say. But I have to command the general serenity of the Committee and its chairs, Rob Weir and Michael Brauer for their quiet and effective management of the proceedings. I think the only thing that is to be hoped for is that we can finish the completion of this ODF sub-version. Also, and of some interest, I can only recommend <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/">the reading of the archives of the Committee&#8217;s discussions online</a> where interesting concepts on extensions and conformance are being discussed.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>Some « lighter » news but as serious: the future of ODF does not just depend on the OASIS ODF Technical Committee. It depends on you. You are encouraged to provide ideas for the future versions of ODF « ODF-Next » . The Committee has wanted this to be inclusive of everyone&#8217;s participation as explained <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/news/oasis-welcomes-input-for-odf-next">here</a>.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>We did know that at some point in time, Microsoft Office would support ODF. It seems the wait is <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/10/22/announcing-service-pack-2-sp2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system.aspx">almost over these days</a>. You will recall I was originally very supportive of the idea of Microsoft Office natively supporting ODF; then, I took some time reading the fine print and I grew a bit wary of what the Microsoft engineers were saying about the limits their implementation of ODF would be constrained to. At this point in time we do not have the Service Pack 2 of Microsoft Office 2007. What we do know however, is a couple of things that got me thinking: ODF support will only be available in the latest, patched version of Microsoft Office 2007. It will have some limitations and the feature will not be put prominently in the hands of the users, so to speak. I wonder why ODF shouldn&#8217;t be Microsoft Office&#8217;s default format or if the default configuration would be more effective with an icon on the user interface. After all, ODF is an ISO standard and people, governments, businesses demand it (at this stage it&#8217;s not even clear if OOXML was even requested by anyone who was not already part of Ecma and had vested interests in siding on with Microsoft&#8230;), so why not make that jump?</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>This also got me thinking: <em>ODF support in MS Office is a good idea.</em> <span>Don&#8217;t get me wrong on this. I wish however were extended to other products of the Microsoft stack, such as Sharepoint, Microsoft Dynamics and even Microsoft Internet Explorer. Why? I do not advocate this strategic move with ulterior motives of having Microsoft fail. Precisely not: The only way for Microsoft to survive is to embrace Open Standards, transparency and perhaps Open Source in some way. So let Microsoft do it the whole way. If the market demands ODF, let it have it and let it have a real choice, where Microsoft would actually be a compelling one for good. I am confident Microsoft folks are having some discussion on this internally. But there is at the very least two sides inside the company, and any attempt to play well with the Open Source Community (for the sake of not playing fair with the Free Software part of the community) is unfortunately matched by opposite and hostile moves.</span></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <span>Which brings me to the Microsoft vs. Tom-Tom case. This is one more story where software patents hamper innovation. Add to this the general timing of the case: Tom-Tom is an European company operating in the automotive industry. You can understand now why the European Union has to stand firmly by its automotive sector&#8230;</span></p> -</li> -</ul> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=117&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_117" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></description> - <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:35:56 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>Leif Lodahl: Lorem Ipsum Generator now in italian</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-1825116170682443906</guid> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/03/lorem-ipsum-generator-now-in-italian.html</link> - <description>Thanks to Maurizio Salzano the extension is now also localized into italian.http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/Lorem_ipsum_generator</description> - <pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:51:48 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> -</item> -<item> - <title>Leif Lodahl: Danish OpenOffice.org newsletter</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-8709246284977624299</guid> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/02/danish-openofficeorg-newsletter.html</link> - <description>Danish OpenOffice.org newsletter is out: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2009Marts.pdf</description> - <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:11:41 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> -</item> -<item> - <title>Leif Lodahl: (Domestic) OpenOffice.org conference in Denmark</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-251576227259935440</guid> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/02/domestic-openofficeorg-conference-in.html</link> - <description>The organization OSL (http://www.osl.dk) is arranging this conference together with the Danish OpenOffice.org community.The conference will be on April 30th. at University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.We will try to cover the story with two tracks, Business and Technical.Open Office - a real alternative Conference in Odense 30/4-09: Track 1: Business9.00 - 10.00 Arrival,</description> - <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:00:17 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
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