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Can Microsoft be trusted on OOXML covenants?: Insight – Software – ZDNet Australia
“Developers wanting to use Microsoft’s Office Open XML specification will need to brush up on their legal skills.”
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Datamation Announces 2008 Product of the Year Winners
“Given Office’s status, it’s a major eyebrow raiser that this category was won by relative newcomer IBM Lotus Symphony. Perhaps it’s because Big Blue’s product is free (that always helps), or because IBM is itself such an established vendor. Whatever the case, consider this vote as a huge upset.”
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An Antic Disposition: A Pre-BRM Miscellany
“I am awed by the security apparatus which is being rolled out to ensure the integrity of the open standards process. Photo ID requirements, badged access to the meeting room, prohibitions against cameras and recording devices, no observers, no press. Truly, this is what open standards are all about.”
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Microsoft puts older Office file formats in public domain — sort of
Just imagine had they done this three years ago instead of offering a license to Massachusetts that did not allow GPL implementations. As I’ve said before, these binary formats will live on, though I suspect OOXML will die off.
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Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote – New York Times
“City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.”
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InternetNews Realtime IT News – Sun Acquires Desktop Virtualization Developer
“innotek’s product, VirtualBox, is a GPL-licensed, open-source platform that allows a single desktop or even laptop PC to run multiple operating systems concurrently. Users can jump between the platforms with the click of a mouse.”
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Open Source Security » Blog Archive » Not with a bang, but a whimper
“Roy Fielding[1] finally quit the OpenSolaris community today, see his resignation letter[2].”
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