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Another corker here from Rob Weir on ISO's rather pathetic OOXML FAQ: To put it in more approachable terms, observe that Ecma-376, OOX...

A nice summary by Rob Weir of Microsoft's increasingly desperate campaign to undermine ODF in every way possible through artful and per...

There is a certain irony in the fact that the OpenDocument Format, that essence of office suite freedom, has been locked up as a proprietary...

Once a mathematician, always a mathematician. I've been one since the age of 8, so when I came across FuzzyMath , a fuzzy logic add-in ...

This reminds me why I'll never learn Esperanto .

Lovely : The truth can now be told. We have a nine-floor complex beneath Devil's Tower in Wyoming, Dick Cheney's home state. We empl...

I missed this the first time around: So, for most of the world, the Gregorian calendar has been the law for 250-425 years. That's a wel...

Any post that manages to link Akkadian with openness gets my cuneiform inscription.

Rob Weir has a characteristically sharp and original analysis of the recent approval by ECMA of Microsoft's Open Office XML: Thus the r...

Another great post by Rob Weir, with an even better heading (any friend of Modest is a friend of mine). It shows in loving detail how Mic...

Since I sank to the (oceanic) depths of linking to a fisheries story on the basis of an irresistible headline, I don't see why I should...