The Swedish SIS has declared it’s vote on OOXML invalid! It appears that the continued stream of complaints, news coverage and blogs reporting Microsoft’s attempt at purchasing OOXML votes has forced Microsoft to come clean and the SIS in response changed it’s vote from Yes to Abstain.
According to Tom Robertson, general manager for interoperability [...]
It appears that Microsoft is just buying the OOXML ISO certification!
All around the world people are reporting ridiculous, shaming and plain disgusting tactics used by Microsoft and it’s partners. Here are a couple examples of the strategy employed by OOXML backers to get it approved.
Rob Kingston, the group manager of HP Australia’s Personal Systems Group, says that HP is working with Red Hat to bring a new Linux desktop to SMB’s in Australia!
HP will be selling it’s HP Compaq dx2250 desktop computer preloaded with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Read the full article at DesktopLinux.com
PlugIM is a new Web 2.0 site that is basically a Digg clone. According to the website it’s a user driven internet marketing community, but the front page and rest of the site will show you that it’s just an alternative digg.
The thing that disturbs me is their name, I can’t imagine putting their badge [...]
The Italian OSSBlog has an interview with Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu developer. In the interview Matt talks about Ubuntu Mobile and says that we can see Ubuntu Mobile powered devices next year!
Google has confirmed that it is working on it’s own derivate of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. The name of the project is Goobuntu, not exactly an inspiring name.
Though it’s still unclear whether this project is just for internal use or if it’s meant to be released for the general public, we can [...]
There’s an article over at blog.gnist.org where the writer explains how he was able to track down a hacker that infiltrated a friend’s servers.
It’s pretty impressive when you read the article, from the discovery of the missing log files to the finding of a chatroom filled with zombie computers!
Wired has a extensive article on how Estonia survived the recent cyberattacks.
Starting with the system administrator of a national newspaper to the tracking and shutting down of the botnets, this article gives a good look inside the defensive measures taken by this small but highly technological country, a country besieged by cyber attacks.
Yesterday I installed Debian Lenny on one of my workstations to give it a try. Ever since I tried Ubuntu I’ve been in love with it, but you all know how love can be blinding So trying a new distribution every now and then is a good idea. Ubuntu is based on Debian, so [...]
The reasons why OOXML shouldn’t make it as an ISO standard just keep increasing.
The article Can other vendors implement OOXML? investigates just that. Can other vendors implement OOXML?
It’s verdict is pretty harsh.
…OOXML has all the formal trappings of a standard without the actual substance of which an open standard provides, and though it might confer [...]