China and OOXML
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www.bbj.hu :: Microsoft ‘monopoly’ comes under fire
“Chinese academics and software developers gathered in Beijing yesterday to voice their opposition to Microsoft’s latest standard document format Office Open XML (OOXML).”
Open Source
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IBM, Novell Unite to Grab More of App Server Market
“In a deal with IBM, Novell will deliver and support WebSphere Application Server Community Edition as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. “
Baseball
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Another Chance Ends Before a Season Does for Backman – New York Times
“Wally Backman joined the independent South Coast League hoping to show he deserved another chance to manage in the big leagues. He did not make it through the season.”
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Bonds Hits No. 756 to Break Aaron’s Record – New York Times
“Whatever happens, Bonds is already the home run king. He has made his mark, indelible and controversial, on baseball history.”
I don’t think anyone needs to make a deal with IBM if they want to distribute and support IBM Websphere Community Edition http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ws/wasce/ .
As far as I can tell, the deal is ‘take, use, modify, redistribute it with or without source, for a fee or for no fee, just don’t sue IBM for patent infringement’.
Of course, if you’d like a commercial warranty contract, or development or operational services for it, or hardware to run it on, your IBM salesman is waiting to take your call. If we can agree on a price, we will sell.
And if you go collaborating with others to develop something based around it, we are watching to see what grows.
Websphere is a textbook. Websphere Community Edition is an exercise book. Please take as many exercise books as you wish, write something in them, learn.
By all accounts there are a million WAS/CE ‘seeds’ scattered around the planet. Some of them must surely fall into fertile soil and start to grow. We’ll think about how to harvest the resulting crop in a few years’ time.