Ars technica has a look at the new Gnome 2.20. In this 5 page review Ryan Paul takes you through the new stuff, the fancy new dialogs and the powerful developer features.
This year is also the tenth anniversary of the Gnome project. Started in 1997, Gnome has powered free desktops around the world. Congratulations!

After many rumors it’s finally official! AMD will be releasing the source code to it’s Linux display drivers and will give access to it’s GPU specifications under a Non Disclosure Agreement.
Mark Shuttleworth has also given his opinion about AMD’s decision. Looks like things are clearing up for the open source graphics world

I recently got into a discussion with some OOXML backers about whether or not OOXML can/should be made an ISO standard. To support my argument that the OOXML specification can’t be fixed with a BRM, I’ve decided to compare the comments that were addressed at the ODF BRM and the ones that will have to [...]

The fasttrack procedure for OOXML has been canceled! The total number of members that voted Yes are 53.12%, which is short of the 66.66% requirement. I think the international community did really well! And with international community I’m talking about the countries that didn’t fall for Microsoft’s money, the free press and bloggers around the [...]