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30 January 2007
Behind and Beyond Halloween
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The publication of the first Halloween memo in 1998 was a pivotal moment in the history of free software. For the first time, it was clea...
07 December 2006
IBM and Microsoft's OpenXML: Update
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I'm impressed: IBM has just stuck a dirty great clog in the engine of Microsoft's machinations to get its Office XML format adopte...
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15 September 2006
The Tired Old "Innovation" Argument
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One of Microsoft's favourite justifications for its monopoly is that any brake on it would be a brake on "innovation" - as if ...
08 September 2006
OpenOffice.org Sprouts in Brussels
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According to this story , the finance authorities in Belgium are starting a pilot project using OpenOffice.org instead of Microsoft Office. ...
31 July 2006
Brazil: Next to Go Nuts for ODF?
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Judging by this article , Brazil's federal government may well be the next to adopt ODF as its official standard. As the news item note...
21 July 2006
OpenOffice.org Goes Dutch
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Just in time for Rembrandt 's 400th birthday , here's some good news from Holland: De gemeente Groningen heeft besloten om een over...
04 July 2006
Fine Microsoft? Fine: But It's Pointless
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According to The New York Times , the EU is about to thump Microsoft to the tune of a couple of million a day. I say: quite right, too. A...
03 July 2006
Plugging Away at ODF Plug-ins
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According to this article , there are plenty of people beavering away on plug-ins for Microsoft Office to allow users to open and save files...
10 May 2006
Anti-ODF Stuff Turns Nasty
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With his customary sharpness, Andy Updegrove skewers a particularly nasty piece of lobbyist punditry. The statement in question manages t...
01 February 2006
Spreading Spread Firefox
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Most computer users by now have heard of the Firefox browser. This is hardly surprising given the extraordinary rate at which it is still ...
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19 January 2006
Time for Mac users to see the OSS light?
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The good news just kept on coming in Steve Jobs's recent MacWorld speech: $5.7 million revenue in the last quarter for Apple; 14 millio...
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17 January 2006
Firefox 2.0
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I commented earlier on how Firefox's market share seems to be soaring; clearly the organisation is beginning to gain some serious momen...
22 December 2005
Microsoft: Same as It Ever Was
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So Microsoft is up to its old, foxy tricks. The European Commission is threatening the company with daily fines of "up to" two m...
12 December 2005
Yahoo! Gets Del.icio.us
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The only suprising thing about Yahoo's acquisition of del.icio.us is that Yahoo got there before Google. The three-way battle between ...
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