September 2010

LibreOffice: The newest member of the ODF family

September 28, 2010

By now I’m sure you have all heard the news of the Document Foundation and LibreOffice.  Personally, I’m still sorting this out.  I have good friends, as well as good professional  relations, on both sides of this split.  They’re all “good guys” in my book and I’m proud to have worked with all of them [...]

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Weekly Links #22

September 25, 2010

Jochen Friedrich’s Open Blog: European Parliament takes clear stance on openness in the context of completing the internal market “More specifically, the parliament clearly requires the use of an open standard in the area of document formats. As stated in clause 41 the parliament “Highlights the importance of an open document exchange format for electronic [...]

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Weekly Links #21

September 18, 2010

MATLAB Central – Newsreader – Does anyone else wish Matlab could handle Open … “I took this advice and utilized the ODFDOM library (part of the odftoolkit project) to implement an xlsread wrapper .m function that will read .ods files on a non-pc platform. The function imports and utilizes classes from the odfdom.jar library.” tags: [...]

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Weekly Links #20

September 11, 2010

ODF Alliance Weblog “Last week, OASIS held the ODF 1.2 Interoperability Demonstration to showcase support for ODF 1.2 and the interoperability across eight implementations. The Demo showcased both open source and commercial software applications processing ODF documents on the desktop, in the cloud and on mobile devices, including IBM Lotus Symphony, KOffice, OpenOffice.org Novell Edition, [...]

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The Recipe for Open Standards (and Why ISO Can’t Cook)

September 9, 2010

Recipe First some definitions.  Let’s define an “open standard” as one that is:  1) freely available, 2) developed in an open process and 3) freely implementable, e.g., is royalty free.  Clearly there are interests out there that attempt to soften these criteria, but that only demonstrates the competitive power presented by truly open standards.  We [...]

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Weekly Links #19

September 4, 2010

BE: Political party moving to a complete open source desktop “Ecolo, a green political party in Belgium, is planning to complete its move to a complete open source desktop system by the end of 2011. On the 220 workstations in its main office, it will gradually replace the underlying operating system to Ubuntu Linux, says [...]

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