There was a time when daggers were drawn on Linux and its demise was plotted in dark detail. At that hour stepped out a shieldmaiden with a blog, and that blog was Groklaw. Eight years later, we hear the news that Groklaw will cease new postings … [Continue reading] about PJ, Goodbye and Good Luck
Ten Things You Didn’t Know About ODF 1.2
Some little known facts, all of them true, but only some of them amusing, and even then only just so, about ODF 1.2, recently approved as a Committee Specification by the OASIS ODF TC: In producing OASIS ODF 1.2, we had 184 Technical Committee … [Continue reading] about Ten Things You Didn’t Know About ODF 1.2
Twitter Powers of Ten
Time-Based Profiling Before any of this will make sense, I ask you to imagine doing a survey of your local shopping mall or other busy commercial shopping district. You want to know where people congregate, where they spend most of their time. Is … [Continue reading] about Twitter Powers of Ten
OASIS ODF 1.2 Committee Specification Approved
A few quick ODF updates. We have a number of projects moving forward at multiple levels. First, just last week the OASIS ODF TC approved the ODF 1.2 Committee Specification. This is the highest level of approval we can give to the specification … [Continue reading] about OASIS ODF 1.2 Committee Specification Approved
Best Practices for Authoring Interoperable ODF Documents
In the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC we have recently started work on a new document, a "Committee Note" which will be called, "Best Practices for Authoring Interoperable ODF Documents". I will be the editor for this … [Continue reading] about Best Practices for Authoring Interoperable ODF Documents