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Microsoft standard proposal turns spotlight to Ecma's process: A lot has happened since I last wrote about the OpenDocument vs. Microsoft file formats drama that is clearly turning out to be one of the most important beachheads in the computer industry. Shortly after Microsoft announced plans to submit its formats to Ecma International for ratification, and then...; Tags: imprimatur, Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2005-12-09

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OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's future: I've been so busy with other stuff that I've only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium's Common Document Format CDF had been identified by the OpenDocument Foundation as a superior document format to the OpenDocument Format that it...; Tags: Drama, OpenDoc, Fact, OpenDocument Format, Disagreement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-16
IBM's Linux contributions: IBM's Linux contributionsRE: IBM's Linux contributionsHonestly Murph.To find something you actually have to look for it,and if you look at the marketing bull sites, youfind marketing bull. Just try to look at these 3places, mentioned below.http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux with things like PAVE which lets you run x86 Linux ...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, IBM Corp., contribution, IBM Linux; Discussion threads 2007-10-12
Unopposable Linux vs immovable ignorance: Unopposable Linux vs immovable ignoranceG-nome[i]"Possibly in the newest Gnome as well?"[/i]It would seem so. I don't like Gnome myself....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlipperIf by newest you mean 'new about 3 years ago' then yes.It keeps a short history including selections in terminal sessions at least it does with Konsole. I've been using it for...; Tags: C/C++, OPEN SOURCE, Programming languages, Operating systems, UNIX, Murph, GNOME, KDE, C, Linux; Discussion threads 2007-07-31
Unopposable Linux vs immovable ignorance: Last week's discussions on why desktop Linux often fails in big organizations drew, among many knowledgeable comments, this note from "webninja": Interoperability and integrationI tried Linux at home for a couple months, just to see how real it was as an alternative. The one...; Tags: Productivity, Linux, Enterprise Policy; Blog posts 2007-07-31

Viacom and YouTube lawyers and others are in violent agreement: intellectual property won't kill social media: There has been a good deal of violent agreement thus far here at Supernova, but I was pretty surprised at the degree of it we had on the panel I moderated this morning, captioned Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media? The answer was resoundingly "no," and the converse also...; Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences; Blog posts 2007-06-20
What Google Gears means for SaaS developers: Google's announcement of Gears has handsomely fulfilled the first of my end-of-year predictions for on-demand, made back in December:"We'll see more and more on-demand vendors coming out with clients that support offline working. In fact, I think we're going to see an important debate developing in the SaaS industry about...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Google, Development; Blog posts 2007-05-31
Intel's vPro brand debuts in HP's dc7700 desktop, manages the system even when off: See our video of the dc7700 in action: To get a better idea of how HPs implementation of Intels Active Management Technology works, David paid a visit to one of Intels chipmaking facilities in Hudson, MA for a personal demo. But youre free to eavesdrop on his visit...; Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Security, Video, Image Gallery, Intels, Intel vPro; Blog posts 2007-02-07
Given latest in OO-XML vs. ODF, Microsoft must reconsider its support for ODF: There has been a flurry of recent activity in the battle between Office Open XML (OO-XML) and the OpenDocument Format ODF that could be swinging the tide in the latters global favor. The two are competing formats for the storage and retrieval of the different documents created by word processors,...; Tags: General, Legal, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, OO-XML, OpenDocument Format; Blog posts 2007-02-07
My "Most Contrived Tech Awards" awards and the SearlsPearls API: As a long time tech journalist, Ive also been in the "awards" business for a long time and as such, I often marvel at the process, the methodology, and the urge to do technology awards. Dont get me wrong. There are definitely some well-deserved awards that are based on rigorous...; Tags: Web technology, Legal, General, IBM Lotus Notes; Blog posts 2006-12-20
Lost in translation: More on the crimes of Google translation: Stevej offers in comments about my previous posting an explanation as to why machine translation is so bad, concluding go read the whole comment:Try it again in a Western language and youll find the results are much more consistent. Its just the difficulty of translating to/from Asian languages that you...; Tags: Business &, Technology; Blog posts 2006-11-10
Will open source Java survive Sun's entry?: Sun says it will use its CDDL license for Java when it goes open source. A formal announcement is due by year-end.Will this kill existing open source Java projects? (The picture is from Enhydra, because it's so gosh-darned cute.)Will it kill Jakarta, offered under the Apache license?Will it kill...; Tags: open source, open-source Java; Blog posts 2006-11-02
TRUSTe: Intent qualifies HP's "bugged" PattyMail as spyware: Going back to the debate of whether HTML-enabled e-mails with traceable graphics in them should qualify as spyware, as an observer of how HP used HTML-email to trick CNET News.com reporter Dawn Kawamoto into opening and then forwarding a traceable e-mail what Ive been calling PattyMail these days, thats a...; Tags: Maier, TRUSTe, e-mail, spyware; Blog posts 2006-09-29
2007 Jeep Compass Limited: The 2007 Jeep Compass marks a new chapter in the Jeep story: it is the first front-wheel drive Jeep ever, and also the first not to be "trail rated"--the imprimatur with which Jeep has trumpeted its off-road prowess to date. Instead, the Compass is a contender for the first Jeep...; Tags: Jeep Compass Ltd., Compass Ltd., Compass; Product reviews 2006-09-14
A CIO taxonomy: Since I'm planning on phasing out my defen book in favor of a new adventure in publishing, and have spent this week talking about hiring related issues, I thought it might be fun to close the week with this excerpted guide to the most common CIO stereotypes. Number one...; Tags: strategy; Blog posts 2006-07-07
On document formats, Microsoft slowly bends to the customer's will: The hi-tech world woke up to news this morning that Microsoft has finally decided to put some wood behind the OpenDocument Format ODF. I deliberately chose the word wood instead of support even though most reports are construing this as some form of support. It is, but not...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format; Blog posts 2006-07-06
What's missing in open source companies?: What's missing in open source companies?Say WHAT???"Successful open source companies don't have big marketing budgets."You've enver heard of IBM or seen their commercials?Better answer to What's missing...:Money.Yes, open source companies sell software. Red Hat admits it, other companies dissemble. The problem is that sales are at such low...; Tags: Red Hat Inc., open source, open source company, IBM Corp., marketing; Discussion threads 2006-06-26
Sun promises to open-source Java: Sun promises to open-source JavaPromisesPromises are made to be brokenhttp://www.otherthingsnow.blogspot.comIt's the End of the World as we Know itDamn, I thought this day would never come.Next Microsoft will release Windows into the wild.This could produce a gain...... for .Net, particularly if IBM's subsequent assertion of control lacks finesse.Use of Java...; Tags: Programming languages, Open Sores, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source; Discussion threads 2006-05-16
OpenDocument versus Microsoft's Open XML: War of words intensifies: Yesterday, the fecal matter started to hit the fan when Sun's director of Web technologies Tim Bray responded to comments made by Microsoft standards and open source general manager Jason Matusow regarding the OpenDocument Format ODF. Today, Andy Updegrove (lawyer for OASIS, the consoritium that published the ODF...; Tags: ISO, OpenDocument Format; Blog posts 2006-05-09
Sun's Bray to Microsoft's Matusow: "In your dreams": If you've spent any time with Sun's director of Web technologies Tim Bray (either in person or virtually, with his blog), then you'd probably get the same impression that I have of Bray. Smart. Centered. Very zen. Doesn't mind a good debate, but sticks to the technical merits....; Tags: Microsoft Office, Jason Matusow, OpenDocument Format; Blog posts 2006-05-08