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- MS: "OpenDoc too slow!" IBM: "MS Open XML too heavy!"
- Have mud. Will sling.According to ZDNet UK's Ingrid Marson, Microsoft is saying that the OpenDocument format is too slow: "The use of OpenDocument documents is slower to the point of not really being satisfactory," Alan Yates, the general manager of Microsoft's information worker strategy, told ZDNet...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-05-25
- Is OSS less reliable?
- That's certainly the impression you'd get from reading the headline and money quote from an article posted at C|Net's News.com today. "Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable' blares the headline. There's a certain tabloid sensationalism running rampant amongst tech site headline writers to be sure. Hey, I've been known...
- Tags: commercial software, Murray, OSS
- Blog posts 2006-05-19
- EC decision proves the value of an ISO standard
- Perhaps the International Organisation of Standardization the ISO should rename itself to something more appropriate like the IMSO: The International Organisation of Multiple Standards. After all, why bother issuing standards at all if, after ratifying one standard, it ratifies another for the same thing. This is what's going...
- Tags: ISO, OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-05-08
- Not ready for (business) prime time
- I use Gmail as my primary personal e-mail address. There's a lot to like about the service and the price is certainly right. But Google has yet to demonstrate that Gmail is anywhere close to being a viable alternative for business use. The latest evidence to support this contention comes...
- Tags: Google Gmail
- Blog posts 2006-03-31
- Microsoft joins OpenDoc committee, and the motive is...?
- Microsoft has joined the INCITS/V1 Technical Committee, which plays a key role in the ratifying the OpenDocument format as an international standard, according to Ingrid Marson's report on ZDNet. Groklaw's Pamela Jones speculated that Microsoft's intentions may not be pure--the wolf in the hen house--and the company would like to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., INCITS/V1 Technical Committee, OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- Torvalds at odds with Cox over Linux and GPL3
- Ingrid Marson of ZDNet News UK reports on Linux developer Alan Cox's take on GPL 3:Cox told ZDNet UK that he thinks that many of the changes in GPL 3 are sound: "The majority of it looks very sensible, such as letting copyright information be displayed in an About box...
- Tags: Linux, GPL, GPL 3
- Blog posts 2006-01-31
- What Linux really means for India is localization
- When I read that India was preparing to distribute Linux on CD, as reported by Ingrid Marson, I knew there was an important word that needed to get into this discussion.The word is localization.Bangalore, the heart of India's "Silicon Valley," is a case in point. It's in Karnataka state. The...
- Tags: Tamil, Kannada
- Blog posts 2005-05-26
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