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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Well, PJ over at Groklaw is at it again, this time with a short but interesting post called Now It’s Spain and OOXML – More Standards Highjinks?.
It seems that back when the technical committee was to meet in Spain to discuss if they’d accept or not Microsoft’s OOXML as an ISO standard, MS sent (or [...]

We all know that I usually leave all the Web2.0 stuff to Handy, but this time…I’m not actually sure Google Desktop actually qualifies as W2.0, so I decided to take a look at the new linux version :)
I installed Google Desktop for Linux on my box 12 days ago. I was actually pretty excited about [...]

Ok, for most laptop users weight is the main thing…the less weight the better, but this laptop from ACME, even tho I’m sure it’s heavier than most, it’s well worth carrying around…tho somebody at Alienware needs to license the multi-monitor technology from these guys or come up with an equivalent…this stuff sounds like a godsend [...]

DARPA, creators of the Internet and other assorted crazy things is still up to its crazy games, but this time out in the Real World. The MIT AI Lab, in collaboration with DARPA, are doing research on…cyborg spy moths.
The ZDNet post points to this article on FoxNews (sourced on The Times), in which Rod [...]

Well, there’s great news for all people who use real editors: Emacs 22.1 released
So…time for all the good people to go and download, compile and install the latest version of the greatest editor :)
Have fun :)
Technorati Tags: emacs, emacs 22.1

A week ago or so, I found a very interesting post, with a different view about FL/OSS on the Once More unto the Breach blog, called  Why the Economics of Open Source Software is so Important.
It’s a longish and very interesting article, with a short but important historical intro about software sharing, an overview of [...]

I found this in CrunchGear, the Newsware, which is a portable toolkit for journalists, consisting of a camera, both still and video, a voice recorder and a note-taking tablet-like thingy that is double-sided, so you can actually have two screens going at the same time.
The sad thing is that neither CrunchGear nor its source, Yanko [...]