The SoapVox

I found an interesting post on Groklaw today, called 10 Myths About Open Source Software Answered, by Carlo Daffara. Yup, it’s a contributed article, not something written by PJ, but it’s not the first time she invites somebody to write something interesting.
And interesting it is. Carlo takes 10 very popular negative myths about FLOSS and [...]

Well, it seems like SCO decided to apply for Chapter 11…many of us who have followed the SCO saga believe that they did that just to get a stay on the Novell case and so they wouldn’t have to return Novell’s money to them…but I’m pretty sure that no matter what they try, they’ll get [...]

A few weeks ago Handy and I were talking about ebooks and ebook readers, when he happened to mention a book he had hanging around, with the strange/silly name of Geek Mafia. Being as I am a geek (not that you’d notice by reading this site :) and that my favorite book of all times [...]

Ok, ok, ok…I know it’s been a while (a whole week already??) since the last time I posted anything to this place, but…I have a good excuse!
For the last 10 years or so, I’ve been an independent consultant, helping small companies upgrade from windows to linux, and then giving said small companies the support they [...]

So…Microsoft tried to buy the vote on the fast track approval of the ISO/IEC DIS 29500, aka the attempt at making OOXML (.docx) a standard.
And even with their warchest, they still got a No.
Vote closes on draft ISO/IEC DIS 29500 standard 2007-09-04 A ballot on whether to publish the draft standard ISO/IEC DIS [...]

This is an interesting post, half funny, half warning, about how not only software viruses propagate, but also mechanical failures that multiply much the same way. Sean, at the alwaysBETA blog calls it The Tale of the Mechanical Virus, and it’s a fun one.
Also, read the comments for other people’s tales of mechanical virus [...]

I just found a very interesting article by Stephen Walli at his Once More Unto the Breach blog, about Office Open XML Conformance (A Lesson in Claiming Standards Conformance). It’s interesting because it takes MS and Apple to the wall about what Standards Conformance actually is, related to OOXML…and he’s an ex-MSoftie :)
The whole thing [...]