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+               <title type="html">Doubts &amp;amp; Hopes</title>
+               <link 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/"/>
+               
<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/</id>
+               <updated>2009-01-07T10:56:07+00:00</updated>
+               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;This post is a follow-up of 
yesterday&amp;#8217;s piece, &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/&quot;&gt;Predictions
 &amp;amp; Resolutions&lt;/a&gt;. Today I will list many things that do not 
relate to I.T. , some others that do. But in general, I&amp;#8217;ll share what 
I&amp;#8217;m mostly uncertain with for the year 2009.&lt;span 
class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;Doubts&lt;/span&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt; Israël has the right to exist, live in peace. Palestinians do as 
well. That&amp;#8217;s why a terrorist movement like the Hamas has no right to 
send missiles on Israeli cities. But Israel&amp;#8217;s counter-attack will be 
ineffective against the Hamas, I&amp;#8217;m afraid. The reason for this is the 
very structure of the Hamas. It&amp;#8217;s a distributed group, and so is 
Al-Quaeda and in general, terrorist movements. You cannot fight against those 
structures with the usual means of warfare. Another thing I was at pain 
understanding for years was the seemingly anti-Israeli bias public opinions 
have all around the world. Some are outrightly manipulated for religious 
reasons. But some are not, and have nothing in the way of antisemitic views. In 
short the whole perception is the one of a reverse David vs. Goliath fight. 
There are several reasons for this. But something need to be done to come back 
to a more balanced view and more balanced ambitions from both sides. I hope, in 
this doubt section, that the Obama presidency could help.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t think governments in general are taking the whole 
measure of the crisis (perhaps except the upcoming Obama administration). This 
is why 2009 will be painful. In several European countries, the political and 
generational gap, not to speak of the social inequalities that have been 
growing in a way this continent was accustomed to will sparkle riots, and lots 
of instability. It has already started in Greece.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;European governments all buy into the too worn-off free market 
ideology. As we have come to understand, this is an ideology (and thus is a 
factor of danger) that has proven to be a failure, in the same way communism 
was a failure, allowing some happy few to benefit the system and generating 
lots of noise. Now don&amp;#8217;t get me wrong: free market is a beautiful 
idea, (perhaps, some might argue, just like communism in the book was) but it 
is merely just this, an idea, and an economist&amp;#8217;s traditional 
cornucopia of sorts. Now these governments seem to be too busy with exerting 
pressure on their own citizens by trying to control medias and the Internet 
than actually addressing people&amp;#8217;s problems. They might actually be 
powerless in front of such a crisis, but they&amp;#8217;re also unwilling to 
bring change to our societies, change that would make their own mental horizon 
change itself. The power of habits and customs&amp;#8230;.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;On a different level, OOXML will continue to be pushed by Microsoft 
and marketed to everyone, governments included. That&amp;#8217;s a trap many 
will fall into, but as you know there&amp;#8217;s a way out: ODF. Meanwhile, 
the deception OOXML is should be fully advertised so that all can be 
warned.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Will Apple ever include ODF support in iWork? iWork 09 
doesn&amp;#8217;t seem to support it, but I might be wrong. TextEdit is not 
enough. &lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Software Patents will be pushed again and again in Europe. Contrary 
to my friend &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/&quot;&gt;Trond 
Arne Undheim&lt;/a&gt;, I don&amp;#8217;t think that ex-ante disclosure is that 
of a good thing: it is merely a much welcome, yet minimal, hygienic measure to 
an insane situation affecting the I.T. market and innovation.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;Hopes&lt;/span&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;OpenOffice.org will go out of traditional desktop application. 
 Perhaps not in 2009, but very likely later. I&amp;#8217;ll go back on this in 
another future post, but you &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/&quot;&gt;can check this 
out&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;I have been a strong critic of Novell&amp;#8217;s agreement of 
Microsoft, but there is one thing I have never denied and that would be how 
great &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/&quot;&gt;OpenSuse&lt;/a&gt; is 
for a distribution. Now what&amp;#8217;s both interesting and unfortunate with 
OpenSuse is that the Novell&amp;#8217;s agreement with Microsoft does 
explicitely not apply to OpenSuse, and that the distribution really opened 
itself, as a project and as a platform on which to build on. So my legal 
question here is to check how much legally chaotic OpenSuse got. By welcoming 
everyone to contribute code, it might have created a situation where neither 
Novell, nor Microsoft could  exert any kind of pressure or FUD, as their own 
intellectual property (whatever that means) is now strongly diluted in packaged 
mess. &lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;I love SecondLife, I really do. But sim crossing and avatar limits? 
Come on, get real, Linden Labs. Despite those shortcomings, I&amp;#8217;m 
spending more and more times there. &lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;ODF has already been adopted by 16 governments. My hope is to see 
that number double by the end of 2009.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;All in all, I expect 2009 to be a year of crisis, but to be a year 
of positive change in the world. Or perhaps it will be a year of full-blown 
crisis. But even then, let&amp;#8217;s all remember that the hour before dawn 
is the darkest time of the night&amp;#8230;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Happy new year to everyone!&lt;span 
class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p class=&quot;akst_link&quot;&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=112&amp;akst_action=share-this&quot;
 title=&quot;E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.&quot; 
id=&quot;akst_link_112&quot; class=&quot;akst_share_link&quot; 
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Share This&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
+               <author>
+                       <name>Charles Schulz</name>
+                       <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri>
+               </author>
+               <source>
+                       <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by 
Standards » OOo Postings</title>
+                       <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. 
Schulz.</subtitle>
+                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/>
+                       
<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id>
+                       <updated>2009-01-07T12:00:46+00:00</updated>
+               </source>
+       </entry>
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+       <entry xml:lang="en">
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href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/"/>
                
<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</id>
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Japan</subtitle>
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href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml"/>
                        <id>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml</id>
-                       <updated>2009-01-07T06:00:36+00:00</updated>
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<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id>
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Japan</subtitle>
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-                       <updated>2009-01-07T06:00:36+00:00</updated>
-               </source>
-       </entry>
-
-       <entry>
-               <title type="html">Extension: Sun Weblog Publisher</title>
-               <link 
href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/extension-sun-weblog-publisher.html"/>
-               
<id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-414870195544222007</id>
-               <updated>2008-12-08T20:39:03+00:00</updated>
-               <content type="html">Extension: Sun Weblog publisherThis post 
is a actually writen in OpenOffice.org Writer and published directly on the 
blog. I'm using the Sun Weblog publisher.After installing the extension you 
must first register your blog account information. You can do that from the 
extension manager or you can find do it from  Tools – Settings – Internet 
– Weblog. When you have writen our blogpost in writer,</content>
-               <author>
-                       <name>Leif Lodahl</name>
-                       <email>[email protected]</email>
-                       <uri>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/</uri>
-               </author>
-               <source>
-                       <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title>
-                       <subtitle type="html">OpenOffice.org, open source 
software and open standards. These are the three things you can read about on 
my blog. I'll try to keep you updated on news and events in Denmark.
-Okay, sometimes you can read something about Lotus Notes too</subtitle>
-                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
-                       <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id>
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-<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 07, 2009 06:00 AM 
GMT</em></p>
+<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 07, 2009 12:00 PM 
GMT</em></p>
 
+<h2>January 07, 2009</h2>
+<h3>
+<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by 
Standards » OOo Postings">
+Charles Schulz</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
+<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/";>
+Doubts &amp; Hopes</a>
+</h3>
+<p>
+<p>This post is a follow-up of yesterday&#8217;s piece, <a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/";>Predictions
 &amp; Resolutions</a>. Today I will list many things that do not relate to 
I.T. , some others that do. But in general, I&#8217;ll share what I&#8217;m 
mostly uncertain with for the year 2009.<span 
class="Apple-style-span">Doubts</span>
+<ul>
+<li> Israël has the right to exist, live in peace. Palestinians do as well. 
That&#8217;s why a terrorist movement like the Hamas has no right to send 
missiles on Israeli cities. But Israel&#8217;s counter-attack will be 
ineffective against the Hamas, I&#8217;m afraid. The reason for this is the 
very structure of the Hamas. It&#8217;s a distributed group, and so is 
Al-Quaeda and in general, terrorist movements. You cannot fight against those 
structures with the usual means of warfare. Another thing I was at pain 
understanding for years was the seemingly anti-Israeli bias public opinions 
have all around the world. Some are outrightly manipulated for religious 
reasons. But some are not, and have nothing in the way of antisemitic views. In 
short the whole perception is the one of a reverse David vs. Goliath fight. 
There are several reasons for this. But something need to be done to come back 
to a more balanced view and more balanced ambitions from both sides. I hope, in 
this doubt section, that the Obama presidency could help.</li>
+<li>I don&#8217;t think governments in general are taking the whole measure of 
the crisis (perhaps except the upcoming Obama administration). This is why 2009 
will be painful. In several European countries, the political and generational 
gap, not to speak of the social inequalities that have been growing in a way 
this continent was accustomed to will sparkle riots, and lots of instability. 
It has already started in Greece.</li>
+<li>European governments all buy into the too worn-off free market ideology. 
As we have come to understand, this is an ideology (and thus is a factor of 
danger) that has proven to be a failure, in the same way communism was a 
failure, allowing some happy few to benefit the system and generating lots of 
noise. Now don&#8217;t get me wrong: free market is a beautiful idea, (perhaps, 
some might argue, just like communism in the book was) but it is merely just 
this, an idea, and an economist&#8217;s traditional cornucopia of sorts. Now 
these governments seem to be too busy with exerting pressure on their own 
citizens by trying to control medias and the Internet than actually addressing 
people&#8217;s problems. They might actually be powerless in front of such a 
crisis, but they&#8217;re also unwilling to bring change to our societies, 
change that would make their own mental horizon change itself. The power of 
habits and customs&#8230;.</li>
+<li>On a different level, OOXML will continue to be pushed by Microsoft and 
marketed to everyone, governments included. That&#8217;s a trap many will fall 
into, but as you know there&#8217;s a way out: ODF. Meanwhile, the deception 
OOXML is should be fully advertised so that all can be warned.</li>
+<li>Will Apple ever include ODF support in iWork? iWork 09 doesn&#8217;t seem 
to support it, but I might be wrong. TextEdit is not enough. </li>
+<li>Software Patents will be pushed again and again in Europe. Contrary to my 
friend <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/";>Trond Arne Undheim</a>, I 
don&#8217;t think that ex-ante disclosure is that of a good thing: it is merely 
a much welcome, yet minimal, hygienic measure to an insane situation affecting 
the I.T. market and innovation.</li>
+</ul>
+<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Hopes</span>
+<ul>
+<li>OpenOffice.org will go out of traditional desktop application.  Perhaps 
not in 2009, but very likely later. I&#8217;ll go back on this in another 
future post, but you <a href="http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/";>can check 
this out</a>&#8230;</li>
+<li>I have been a strong critic of Novell&#8217;s agreement of Microsoft, but 
there is one thing I have never denied and that would be how great <a 
href="http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/";>OpenSuse</a> is for a distribution. 
Now what&#8217;s both interesting and unfortunate with OpenSuse is that the 
Novell&#8217;s agreement with Microsoft does explicitely not apply to OpenSuse, 
and that the distribution really opened itself, as a project and as a platform 
on which to build on. So my legal question here is to check how much legally 
chaotic OpenSuse got. By welcoming everyone to contribute code, it might have 
created a situation where neither Novell, nor Microsoft could  exert any kind 
of pressure or FUD, as their own intellectual property (whatever that means) is 
now strongly diluted in packaged mess. </li>
+<li>I love SecondLife, I really do. But sim crossing and avatar limits? Come 
on, get real, Linden Labs. Despite those shortcomings, I&#8217;m spending more 
and more times there. </li>
+<li>ODF has already been adopted by 16 governments. My hope is to see that 
number double by the end of 2009.</li>
+<li>All in all, I expect 2009 to be a year of crisis, but to be a year of 
positive change in the world. Or perhaps it will be a year of full-blown 
crisis. But even then, let&#8217;s all remember that the hour before dawn is 
the darkest time of the night&#8230;</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Happy new year to everyone!<span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p>
+<p class="akst_link"><a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=112&akst_action=share-this"; 
title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_112" 
class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a>
+</p></p></p></p>
+<p>
+<em><a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/";>by 
Charles at January 07, 2009 10:56 AM GMT</a></em>
+</p>
+<br />
+<hr />
+<br />
 <h2>January 06, 2009</h2>
 <h3>
 <a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by 
Standards » OOo Postings">
@@ -392,21 +426,6 @@
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 <hr />
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-<h2>December 08, 2008</h2>
-<h3>
-<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog">
-Leif Lodahl</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
-<a 
href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/extension-sun-weblog-publisher.html";>
-Extension: Sun Weblog Publisher</a>
-</h3>
-<p>
-Extension: Sun Weblog publisherThis post is a actually writen in 
OpenOffice.org Writer and published directly on the blog. I'm using the Sun 
Weblog publisher.After installing the extension you must first register your 
blog account information. You can do that from the extension manager or you can 
find do it from  Tools – Settings – Internet – Weblog. When you have 
writen our blogpost in writer,</p>
-<p>
-<em><a 
href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/extension-sun-weblog-publisher.html";>by
 Leif Lodahl ([email protected]) at December 08, 2008 08:39 PM GMT</a></em>
-</p>
-<br />
-<hr />
-<br />
 <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a>
 <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those 
 of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the 

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+       
<link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/doubts-hopes/</link>
+       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;This post is a follow-up of 
yesterday&amp;#8217;s piece, &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/&quot;&gt;Predictions
 &amp;amp; Resolutions&lt;/a&gt;. Today I will list many things that do not 
relate to I.T. , some others that do. But in general, I&amp;#8217;ll share what 
I&amp;#8217;m mostly uncertain with for the year 2009.&lt;span 
class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;Doubts&lt;/span&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt; Israël has the right to exist, live in peace. Palestinians do as 
well. That&amp;#8217;s why a terrorist movement like the Hamas has no right to 
send missiles on Israeli cities. But Israel&amp;#8217;s counter-attack will be 
ineffective against the Hamas, I&amp;#8217;m afraid. The reason for this is the 
very structure of the Hamas. It&amp;#8217;s a distributed group, and so is 
Al-Quaeda and in general, terrorist movements. You cannot fight against those 
structures with the usual means of warfare. Another thing I was at pain 
understanding for years was the seemingly anti-Israeli bias public opinions 
have all around the world. Some are outrightly manipulated for religious 
reasons. But some are not, and have nothing in the way of antisemitic views. In 
short the whole perception is the one of a reverse David vs. Goliath fight. 
There are several reasons for this. But something need to be done to come back 
to a more balanced view and more balanced ambitions from both sides. I hope, in 
this doubt section, that the Obama presidency could help.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t think governments in general are taking the whole 
measure of the crisis (perhaps except the upcoming Obama administration). This 
is why 2009 will be painful. In several European countries, the political and 
generational gap, not to speak of the social inequalities that have been 
growing in a way this continent was accustomed to will sparkle riots, and lots 
of instability. It has already started in Greece.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;European governments all buy into the too worn-off free market 
ideology. As we have come to understand, this is an ideology (and thus is a 
factor of danger) that has proven to be a failure, in the same way communism 
was a failure, allowing some happy few to benefit the system and generating 
lots of noise. Now don&amp;#8217;t get me wrong: free market is a beautiful 
idea, (perhaps, some might argue, just like communism in the book was) but it 
is merely just this, an idea, and an economist&amp;#8217;s traditional 
cornucopia of sorts. Now these governments seem to be too busy with exerting 
pressure on their own citizens by trying to control medias and the Internet 
than actually addressing people&amp;#8217;s problems. They might actually be 
powerless in front of such a crisis, but they&amp;#8217;re also unwilling to 
bring change to our societies, change that would make their own mental horizon 
change itself. The power of habits and customs&amp;#8230;.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;On a different level, OOXML will continue to be pushed by Microsoft 
and marketed to everyone, governments included. That&amp;#8217;s a trap many 
will fall into, but as you know there&amp;#8217;s a way out: ODF. Meanwhile, 
the deception OOXML is should be fully advertised so that all can be 
warned.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Will Apple ever include ODF support in iWork? iWork 09 
doesn&amp;#8217;t seem to support it, but I might be wrong. TextEdit is not 
enough. &lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Software Patents will be pushed again and again in Europe. Contrary 
to my friend &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/&quot;&gt;Trond 
Arne Undheim&lt;/a&gt;, I don&amp;#8217;t think that ex-ante disclosure is that 
of a good thing: it is merely a much welcome, yet minimal, hygienic measure to 
an insane situation affecting the I.T. market and innovation.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;Hopes&lt;/span&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;OpenOffice.org will go out of traditional desktop application. 
 Perhaps not in 2009, but very likely later. I&amp;#8217;ll go back on this in 
another future post, but you &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/&quot;&gt;can check this 
out&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;I have been a strong critic of Novell&amp;#8217;s agreement of 
Microsoft, but there is one thing I have never denied and that would be how 
great &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/&quot;&gt;OpenSuse&lt;/a&gt; is 
for a distribution. Now what&amp;#8217;s both interesting and unfortunate with 
OpenSuse is that the Novell&amp;#8217;s agreement with Microsoft does 
explicitely not apply to OpenSuse, and that the distribution really opened 
itself, as a project and as a platform on which to build on. So my legal 
question here is to check how much legally chaotic OpenSuse got. By welcoming 
everyone to contribute code, it might have created a situation where neither 
Novell, nor Microsoft could  exert any kind of pressure or FUD, as their own 
intellectual property (whatever that means) is now strongly diluted in packaged 
mess. &lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;I love SecondLife, I really do. But sim crossing and avatar limits? 
Come on, get real, Linden Labs. Despite those shortcomings, I&amp;#8217;m 
spending more and more times there. &lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;ODF has already been adopted by 16 governments. My hope is to see 
that number double by the end of 2009.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;All in all, I expect 2009 to be a year of crisis, but to be a year 
of positive change in the world. Or perhaps it will be a year of full-blown 
crisis. But even then, let&amp;#8217;s all remember that the hour before dawn 
is the darkest time of the night&amp;#8230;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Happy new year to everyone!&lt;span 
class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p class=&quot;akst_link&quot;&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=112&amp;akst_action=share-this&quot;
 title=&quot;E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.&quot; 
id=&quot;akst_link_112&quot; class=&quot;akst_share_link&quot; 
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Share This&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
+       <dc:date>2009-01-07T10:56:07+00:00</dc:date>
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your blog account information. You can do that from the extension manager or 
you can find do it from  Tools – Settings – Internet – Weblog. When you 
have writen our blogpost in writer,</content:encoded>
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+       <title>Charles Schulz: Doubts &amp; Hopes</title>
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+       <description>&lt;p&gt;This post is a follow-up of yesterday&amp;#8217;s 
piece, &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/&quot;&gt;Predictions
 &amp;amp; Resolutions&lt;/a&gt;. Today I will list many things that do not 
relate to I.T. , some others that do. But in general, I&amp;#8217;ll share what 
I&amp;#8217;m mostly uncertain with for the year 2009.&lt;span 
class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;Doubts&lt;/span&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt; Israël has the right to exist, live in peace. Palestinians do as 
well. That&amp;#8217;s why a terrorist movement like the Hamas has no right to 
send missiles on Israeli cities. But Israel&amp;#8217;s counter-attack will be 
ineffective against the Hamas, I&amp;#8217;m afraid. The reason for this is the 
very structure of the Hamas. It&amp;#8217;s a distributed group, and so is 
Al-Quaeda and in general, terrorist movements. You cannot fight against those 
structures with the usual means of warfare. Another thing I was at pain 
understanding for years was the seemingly anti-Israeli bias public opinions 
have all around the world. Some are outrightly manipulated for religious 
reasons. But some are not, and have nothing in the way of antisemitic views. In 
short the whole perception is the one of a reverse David vs. Goliath fight. 
There are several reasons for this. But something need to be done to come back 
to a more balanced view and more balanced ambitions from both sides. I hope, in 
this doubt section, that the Obama presidency could help.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t think governments in general are taking the whole 
measure of the crisis (perhaps except the upcoming Obama administration). This 
is why 2009 will be painful. In several European countries, the political and 
generational gap, not to speak of the social inequalities that have been 
growing in a way this continent was accustomed to will sparkle riots, and lots 
of instability. It has already started in Greece.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;European governments all buy into the too worn-off free market 
ideology. As we have come to understand, this is an ideology (and thus is a 
factor of danger) that has proven to be a failure, in the same way communism 
was a failure, allowing some happy few to benefit the system and generating 
lots of noise. Now don&amp;#8217;t get me wrong: free market is a beautiful 
idea, (perhaps, some might argue, just like communism in the book was) but it 
is merely just this, an idea, and an economist&amp;#8217;s traditional 
cornucopia of sorts. Now these governments seem to be too busy with exerting 
pressure on their own citizens by trying to control medias and the Internet 
than actually addressing people&amp;#8217;s problems. They might actually be 
powerless in front of such a crisis, but they&amp;#8217;re also unwilling to 
bring change to our societies, change that would make their own mental horizon 
change itself. The power of habits and customs&amp;#8230;.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;On a different level, OOXML will continue to be pushed by Microsoft 
and marketed to everyone, governments included. That&amp;#8217;s a trap many 
will fall into, but as you know there&amp;#8217;s a way out: ODF. Meanwhile, 
the deception OOXML is should be fully advertised so that all can be 
warned.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Will Apple ever include ODF support in iWork? iWork 09 
doesn&amp;#8217;t seem to support it, but I might be wrong. TextEdit is not 
enough. &lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Software Patents will be pushed again and again in Europe. Contrary 
to my friend &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/&quot;&gt;Trond 
Arne Undheim&lt;/a&gt;, I don&amp;#8217;t think that ex-ante disclosure is that 
of a good thing: it is merely a much welcome, yet minimal, hygienic measure to 
an insane situation affecting the I.T. market and innovation.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;Hopes&lt;/span&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;OpenOffice.org will go out of traditional desktop application. 
 Perhaps not in 2009, but very likely later. I&amp;#8217;ll go back on this in 
another future post, but you &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/&quot;&gt;can check this 
out&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;I have been a strong critic of Novell&amp;#8217;s agreement of 
Microsoft, but there is one thing I have never denied and that would be how 
great &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/&quot;&gt;OpenSuse&lt;/a&gt; is 
for a distribution. Now what&amp;#8217;s both interesting and unfortunate with 
OpenSuse is that the Novell&amp;#8217;s agreement with Microsoft does 
explicitely not apply to OpenSuse, and that the distribution really opened 
itself, as a project and as a platform on which to build on. So my legal 
question here is to check how much legally chaotic OpenSuse got. By welcoming 
everyone to contribute code, it might have created a situation where neither 
Novell, nor Microsoft could  exert any kind of pressure or FUD, as their own 
intellectual property (whatever that means) is now strongly diluted in packaged 
mess. &lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;I love SecondLife, I really do. But sim crossing and avatar limits? 
Come on, get real, Linden Labs. Despite those shortcomings, I&amp;#8217;m 
spending more and more times there. &lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;ODF has already been adopted by 16 governments. My hope is to see 
that number double by the end of 2009.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;All in all, I expect 2009 to be a year of crisis, but to be a year 
of positive change in the world. Or perhaps it will be a year of full-blown 
crisis. But even then, let&amp;#8217;s all remember that the hour before dawn 
is the darkest time of the night&amp;#8230;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Happy new year to everyone!&lt;span 
class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p class=&quot;akst_link&quot;&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=112&amp;akst_action=share-this&quot;
 title=&quot;E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.&quot; 
id=&quot;akst_link_112&quot; class=&quot;akst_share_link&quot; 
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Share This&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
+       <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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the Sun Weblog publisher.After installing the extension you must first register 
your blog account information. You can do that from the extension manager or 
you can find do it from  Tools – Settings – Internet – Weblog. When you 
have writen our blogpost in writer,</description>
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