Bad ideas never die. The latest relapse is: For every dollar of Microsoft revenue from Windows Vista in 2007 in the U.S., the ecosystem beyond Microsoft will reap $18 in revenues. In 2007 this ecosystem should sell about $70 billion in products … [Continue reading] about Broken Windows and the Ghost of Keynes
How to hire Guillaume Portes
You want to hire a new programmer and you have the perfect candidate in mind, your old college roommate, Guillaume Portes. Unfortunately you can't just go out and offer him the job. That would get you in trouble with your corporate HR policies … [Continue reading] about How to hire Guillaume Portes
And then there were three…
ODF, OOXML and now, UOF. This story broke back in November, with some good coverage including:Andy Updegrove: Another Open Document Format – From China and More on China's Uniform Office Format (and much more)Jeff Kaplan: Is China Pulling a Bill … [Continue reading] about And then there were three…
Got ODF?
Are you writing code that works with ODF? Open source, commercial, in-house, internationally distributed, written in Python, Java, Ruby, C++ or Haskell, a one person project or with a team of dozens — if it is done with ODF and is interesting, … [Continue reading] about Got ODF?
A notable achievement
I believe congratulations are in order to Microsoft and Ecma's TC45 for what appears to be a new world record for creating a standard. Their recently-approved Office Open XML (OOXML) standard weighed in at 6,456 pages yet took only 357 days to be … [Continue reading] about A notable achievement