Readings

Antonis Christofides, one of the Greek delegates, has written an extensive and remarkable post about the BRM. He clarifies many of the points that were left in the dark by most of the other delegates that have reported about the BRM, because they were too biased (and this was almost the only thing that I could understand). Thank you, Antonis Technorati Tags: brm Share This Nessun tag per questo post. Last posts on the same subject. No related post. ... more

The change has been announced last week, but I think it’s important to read Simon Phipp’s comments on its relevance . This quote sums it up: OpenOffice.org’s license will change to LGPLv3 as part of a broader set of changes intended to improve the OpenOffice.org community for everyone. Those changes also include a switch to the latest version of the standard Sun contributor agreement, with an addendum specifically tailored to the needs of the OpenOffice.org community. Th... more

Some key findings: Approximately 81 percent of respondents feel the economy’s turbulence is “good” for open source software Respondents revealed that the top three factors that make open source software attractive include: lower acquisition and maintenance costs flexibility/access to libraries of community-developed code freedom from vendor lock-in More than 55 percent of respondents believe that in five years 25-50 percent of purchased software will be open source vs. ... more

I have tried to follow the discussion about the standardization of the Microsoft Office Open XML document format, or ECMA-376:2006 or ISO/IEC DIS 29500. The fast track process is in the final stage, with the national bodies voting on the approval of the modified specs which came out of the Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva. I have been reading many blogs, which seem to be the preferred communication tool for both parties: those for the approval and those against the approval. Using a handy ... more