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24 May 2007
Redflag and RedOffice Day
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Good news from the Middle Kingdom: Sun Microsystems, Inc. , the OpenOffice.org community and Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Co., Ltd., today...
22 May 2007
The Joy (and Utility) of FUD
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As I've written elsewhere , Microsoft's FUD is more interesting for what it says about the company's deepest fears than for its ...
14 May 2007
A Ray of Sunshine
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Here's a fascinating post about software patents from Greg Papadopoulos, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Resea...
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03 May 2007
Sun Joins Mac Port of OpenOffice.org
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Further signs of Sun's broad commitment to open source and OpenOffice.org: I'm excited to let you all know that as of now Sun engin...
02 May 2007
(Not So) Mysterious Asia
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Simon Phipps has some interesting numbers relating to open source in Asia: It seems that a few years ago, more than 95% of the software mar...
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No Progeny for Progeny
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Progeny's metabolic processes are now history. It's off the twig and has kicked the bucket, apparently . With its founder, Ian Mur...
17 April 2007
McNealy Calls for Merger of ODF and UOF
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Readers of this blog may recall mentions of the third document format, China's UOF (click on UOF tag below for more on the subject). We...
19 March 2007
Murdock Joins Sun: Watch Out GNU/Linux
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I've noted in a number of places the impressive and continuing rise of Sun to become pretty much the leading defender of the GNU GPL fa...
15 March 2007
The Other Open Source Java
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Sun's Java is not the only one going open source : In spite of a deal with the U.S.-based software giant Microsoft, the government pledg...
07 March 2007
Sun's Darkstar Joins the GPL Light Side
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Sun continues its progress through the ranks of open source supporters, hurtling fast towards top-spot as Richard Stallman's Number 1 fr...
20 February 2007
You Wait Ages for a Bus...
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...and then three come along at once. Once upon a time, people looked down on ODF because it seemed the Cinderella of formats: rather poor, ...
13 February 2007
Information Always Outlives Technology
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Nice to see Sun's boss-man getting it about both open standards and ODF: Imagine you're a legislator that writes a law, or a doctor...
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12 February 2007
A Doubly-Poisoned Chalice?
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I'm not sure about this : Probably most of you have heard or read about Novell's effort to provide VBA support in OpenOffice.org for...
07 February 2007
Sun Shines Again
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Further to my general encomium on Sun, here's more good news : Sun Microsystems... today announced the upcoming availability of the Sta...
23 January 2007
The Coming Java Tsunami
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I think this is just the first of many such decisions, all born of Sun's enlightened choice of the GNU GPL for Java: Python was origina...
17 January 2007
Blog Perdurability and the Information Commons
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Simon Phipps raises an important point : what should be done about corporate blog pages when their owner has, er, passed on (as in to anothe...
13 January 2007
Fortress: Sun's Open Fortran
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Ayo, this brings back too many memories of punched cards at midnight: Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the...
29 December 2006
Those who Cannot Remember the Past...
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...are condemned to release again it ten years later. I was interest to read that Sun has launched its Looking Glass interface. Not just ...
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08 December 2006
Energy Worries: Not Just Virtual
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Following the recent excitement about Second Life's energy consumption, it seems that people are beginning to realise that it's not...
30 November 2006
Sun Opts for GNU GPL v2.5
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I've written elsewhere about my pleasant surprise at Sun choosing the GNU GPL for Java. But an obvious question that follows on from t...
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