Last year I did a three-part blog (“The Power of Brand and the Power of Product”) describing a simple model of product adoption and market share, and showed how the parameters of that model could be determined using a single survey question. I used the open source productivity suites, OpenOffice and LibreOffice, as examples. […]
ISO/IEC JTC1 Approves ODF 1.2 PAS Ballot
OASIS ODF 1.2, the current version of the Open Document Format standard, was approved by ISO/IEC JTC1 National Bodies after a 3-month Publicly Available Specification (PAS) ballot. The final vote for DIS 26300 was: 17-0 for Parts 1 and 2, and 18-0 for Part 3. Of course, this is a very good result and all […]
An inquiry into the topological ordering of casual American male dress
The dressing and arming of a warrior is a common set scene in epic poetry, e.g., Iliad 2: He put on a soft khiton, fine and newly made, and put around himself a great cloak. Under his shining feet he fastened fine sandals and around his shoulders he placed a silver-studded sword. He took up […]
Document as Activity versus Document as Record
I’ve been thinking some more on the past, present and future of documents. I don’t know exactly where this post will end up, but I think this will help me clarify some of my own thoughts. First, I think technology has clouded our thinking and we’ve been equivocating with the term “document”, using it for […]
Announcing OpenLibreOffice
2014-04-01 The Internet The Apache OpenOffice project and The Document Foundation are pleased to announce that an agreement has been made to combine resources and jointly develop a next-generation open source office suite, to be called “OpenLibreOffice” (except in France where it will be called “LibreOfficeOpen”). OpenLibreOffice will be quad licensed under the ALv2, […]