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- OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'
- When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML
- ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXMLIs the vote the most important issue?A splintering of ODF advocates won't affect IBM's attempt to discomfit a rival nor slow those who believe Microsoft villainous. But it does reduce or make less enthusiastic the number of those campaigning against Office and for ODF...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- Microsoft vs. the OSI
- Microsoft vs. the OSIMakes perfect senseAfter all, we've always given everyone equal say in the definition of terms. For instance, look at all of the countries in the last century who were "deomocratic" or "republics," such as the People's Republic of China, the Deutsche Democratic Republic, the Islamic Republic...
- Discussion threads 2005-09-25
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- A quick note on Ubuntu for netbooks
- A quick note on Ubuntu for netbooksThat was funnyA bit tongue in cheek though, I suppose.... :-)In chivalrous defense of the unhappy Matusow: there is good reason to suppose that the quality of education in South Africa has deteriorated in the past years. Brain drain and all that. So...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- A quick note on Ubuntu for netbooks
- Few details are available yet, but Mark Shuttleworth revealed in an interview with the Guardian that a version of Ubuntu customized for the netbook market would be released in early June. Unfortunately, details are scarce; here's the line from the interview: [The Guardian]: Will you be...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF
- OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODFIf they can't even support it themselveshow the heck do they expect other applications to support it?even M$ can't implement OOXMLwhile some people are cheerleading this bloated and broken standard.I expect to see M$ droping support for OOXML in the next office 'for technical...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- Microsoft's ODF support looks good ... but on paper only
- Microsoft’s pledge to support ODF as a native file format in Office 2007 SP2 is good news for OpenOffice â€" but on paper only. The devil is in the details â€" and Microsoft hasn’t spelled out precisely how or if its ODF 1.1 implementation will support macros...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML win
- Like it or not, Microsoft’s OOXML â€" now known as IS 29500 -- has received the proper number of votes to become an ISO standard. And the Redmond, Washington company is wasting no time rejoicing the turnaround win. In his blog today, Jason Matusow,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Super Friday to climax Microsoft Open XML push
- Forget Super Tuesday. Consider Super Friday. Super Friday is February 29, the end of the ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting which will decide the fate of Open XML as an ISO standard. Opponents say Microsoft has been packing national standards bodies to assure a "yes"Â vote...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Will GNOME split give Microsoft Open XML standards win?
- Microsoft's efforts to overturn a vote earlier this year denying its Open XML "fast track" standards certification seem to be getting a boost from the GNOME Foundation. GNOME Foundation founder Miguel deIcaza is a Novell employee, and his actions have been closely scrutinized since Microsoft signed its...
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML
- Microsoft's battle with backers of the Open Document Format ODF standard could end up going the way that so many contests do: Won by Microsoft as much -- if not more -- because of the ineptitude of its competition than by Redmond's prowess. Just as Netscape and...
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Denmark to test Open XML, ODF in year-long evaluation
- More on the file format wars: Denmark will run a test of the two competing formats -- Open Document Format and Office Open XML -- over the next year, in which government agencies will be required to use both formats, InfoWorld reports.Denmark is requiring both standards for the test period...
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- Who speaks for Microsoft on open source?
- This is something of an open thread because I am genuinely confused on this important point. (Picture from Torahmitzion.)Does Steve Ballmer speak for Microsoft on open source? Hes the CEO, and he seems to think that open source does not exist, has no right to exist, and can be ground...
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- File format wars: Is there more to ODF vs. OOXML than vendor politics?
- Standards battles tend to be all about politics and politicking, as the increasingly heated Open Document Format ODF vs. Open Office XML OOXL file-format contest proves. Blogs and lawsuits have become the new battleground. In this corner, we have Bob Sutor, Vice President of Standards and Open Source for...
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Microsoft: "It was simply an error"
- Microsoft: "It was simply an error"It's all about fear and keeping the shareholders happy[i]'"That doesn't make any sense," replies Matusow [of Microsoft]. "There's no logic to it. Why would you patent something in a space where you know there is prior art? There would be litigation, and you would know...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-30
- Microsoft: "It was simply an error"
- In reaction to this weekends revelation that Microsoft filed a patent in October 2005 for an invention they knew had prior art, the software giant has filed an "express abandonment of the application" with the US Patent and Trademark Office USPTO according to Jason Matusow, Sr. Director of IP and...
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- Scoble leaving Microsoft was 8th most-read story at the open source blog
- My brief piece on Robert Scoble left leaving Microsoft, and speculation about Microsoft leaving the open source discussion, was the 8th most-read story on this blog for 2006. In that item I also noted that Jason Matusow had not updated his own blog at Microsoft in some time. Hes still...
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- The meat of the Microsoft-Novell deal is in the patents
- The most meaty part of the November 2 cooperative-technology deal between Microsoft and Novell is also the hardest to understand: The patent portion. Luckily, Jason Matusow, Microsoft's Director of Corporate Standards, breaks it all down in his posting today. The highlights: * Novell and Microsoft are providing covenants to each...
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Hats-off to Microsoft for finally freeing Sender ID! Spammers, take cover
- Although it didn't open source the technology and there's no word on whether the open community will embrace it after originally turning tail and running from it years ago, Microsoft has taken a bold and welcome step by changing the terms of availability for its Sender ID anti-spam technology to...
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
- When corporations attack
- When corporations attack everything becomes political and personal. I prefer it be economic. My post Patents are Not Property, attacking an assertion by Microsoft lawyer David Rudin I found both overly-broad and disingenuous, has gotten a predictable response. (Not to mention an attaboy from Jason Matusow.) My point was...
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
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