Showing posts with label andy updegrove. Show all posts
Showing posts with label andy updegrove. Show all posts
25 March 2008

Something in the Air

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For those readers (assuming I still have any) who wonder why I witter on about topics that seem distant from that exciting free software stu...
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29 February 2008

Geneva BRM Vote Result: It's Clearly "Zlthoy"

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If anyone can make sense of what happened this week in Geneva during the BRM process it's Andy Updegrove. He has an unrivalled grasp of...
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25 February 2008

Get a Life? - Get a Clue

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I came across the following at the weekend: Speaking at a Microsoft-hosted event, analyst David Mitchell revealed he used to lecture police...
22 December 2007

What's Up, UOF Doc?

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The battle for the soul of the document is usually presented as a two-horse race between ODF and OOXML. But that's a very parochially W...
26 November 2007

Andy Updegrove on the War of the Words

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The ODF/OOXML struggle has been one of the pivotal stories for the world of open source, open data and open standards. I've written abo...
05 November 2007

A Question of Standards

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Andy Updegrove's Standards Blog is one of my favourites, because he clearly knows what he is talking about, and this means his analyses...
09 March 2007

Has Microsoft Blinked on Office formats?

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Microsoft Corp's director of corporate standards has conceded that 'legitimate concerns' have been raised in response to its att...
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22 November 2006

The Middle Kingdom Moves Up the Pack

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I mentioned the intriguing Uniform Office Format (UOF), from China, a little while back. Here's a presentation on the subject. As we...
20 November 2006

MA ODF: Drawing a Balance

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Following his rather downbeat piece about the musical chairs in Massachusetts over bringing in ODF, Andy Updegrove has now complemented this...
18 October 2006

An Ode to Unicode 5.0

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Andy Updegrove has a short but justified paean to the wonder that is Unicode , one of the unsung heroes/heroines of the computer revolution...
26 September 2006

IBM's Open Patent Policy

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IBM's announcement of a new patent policy is obviously important, if only because Big Blue has a big collection of the critters. Wheth...
27 July 2006

Emoticonatronic

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I'd have expected this news about a new Emotion Incubator Group at the W3C to have been released on the 1st April: Emotion-oriented (or...
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...
25 March 2006

A Question of Standards

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Good to see Andy Updegrove's blog getting Slashdotted . This is good news not just for him, but also for his argument , which is that ...
31 January 2006

ODF Gets Interestinger

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Who would have thought file formats could be such fun? The great battle over whether the OpenDocument format should be adopted in Massachus...