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Microsoft’s Office business faces more competition – MarketWatch
“However, the business division’s quarterly decline – which took some of the shine off an otherwise blockbuster performance by Microsoft’s Windows operating system – also underlines the software giant’s need to maintain a key growth engine in the face of increasing competition.”
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OpenOffice is the new David Hasselhoff • The Register
“The firm also believes national pride may have its hand in determining a country’s office suite of choice. It noted that strong adoption of OpenOffice in Germany could partially be a result of its origins in StarOffice code, originally developed by the Germany company StarDivision. Meanwhile, Canada has the largest WordPerfect market share (4 per cent) perhaps thanks to Corel Corporation’s Ontario heritage.”
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“Novell Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) and The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) today announced an international partnership to standardize their entry-level Linux certification programs on LPIC-1. Under this program, Linux professionals who have earned their LPIC-1 status will also satisfy the requirements for the Novell® Certified Linux Administrator (CLA) certification. In addition, Novell Training Services has formally agreed to include required LPIC-1 learning objectives in its CLA course training material.”
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Myst Online is alive… again… for the, um, we lost count how many times it died – Massively
“The game that gives Lazarus a run for his money, Myst Online: URU Live, is kicking once more. Cyan Worlds has gotten enough money together again to start up a brand new Myst server as the first phase of making Myst Online an open source project. The cavern that’s online now is mostly the same cavern that GameTap had right as the game went offline”
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Black Duck patents OSS software license conflict analysis
“Bradley Kuhn, the technology director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) expressed dismay this week after learning that Black Duck Software was granted a patent that covers software methods for detecting and resolving open source software licensing conflicts. Kuhn, who plays a major role in the SFLC’s GPL enforcement efforts, contends that Black Duck’s patent is far from novel and describes techniques that he has been using for licensing compliance analysis for over a decade.”
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Now that more and more governments adopts ODF, Denmark lately, what happened to MS was forced to support ODF, and they made an ODF format that only they could read and write?
Did EU have to accept that, or is the ODF case against MS still active?
Because it would be pretty bad, if governments started using MSODF and not ODF.
You are thinking about Microsoft and their OOXML spec, which, while XML, was not a variant of ODF. Several of us have written thousands of words on that whole business. Just look for OOXML in a search engine.
For example, see my ‘An “OOXML is a bad idea” blog entry compendium’ at http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1781