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Log: Planet run at Thu May 7 00:00:50 BST 2009 File Changes: Directory: /native-lang/www/planet/ =================================== File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1628&r2=1.1629 Delta lines: +40 -54 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-05-06 17:01:13+0000 1.1628 +++ atom.xml 2009-05-06 23:01:16+0000 1.1629 @@ -5,9 +5,43 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-05-06T17:00:52+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-05-06T23:00:56+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">ODF with no excuse</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/</id> + <updated>2009-05-06T17:12:09+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p> Reports start to appear in the press about the ODF support quality enabled by the Service Pack 2 inside Microsoft Office 2007. I could say that I&#8217;m not surprised,<br /> +but I somewhat had also expected the contrary. Unfortunately it seems we have here a poor implementation of ODF. If further reports confirm it (and I have no serious doubt they will),<br /> +we will have the case of a monopolistic vendor messing up its own implementation of an open standard and have no viable excuse for doing so.</p> +<p>If we are to believe several reports who all link to <a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html">Rob Weir&#8217;s own thorough review</a> ,<br /> +Microsoft has not only done a poor job implementing ODF, it has also ended up into a quite unique <em>endless loop phenomenon</em> . What this basically means is that in some instances<br /> +ODF documents created by Microsoft Office will only be readable and editable in&#8230; Microsoft Office. How was this possible? Apparently when you want to mess up something, you always find ways to do so.</p> +<p>It would be very tempting to assume that if such a loop, as I call it, was possible, then the real technical flaw has been lying inside the standard&#8217;s specification for quite some time. And you know what?<br /> +This is obviously the case&#8230; otherwise it would not have been possible, or else, MS does not produce conforming ODF documents. But the worst part may not even be there.</p> +<p>What we should perhaps realize today, is that one company charged of monopolistic abuse, after having imposed its own office document standard at the ISO (this one being itself under investigation),<br /> +is now trying to break the existing interoperability with the ODF standard. It would not be the first time Microsoft would have had this strategy. But it just reveals how little has changed inside this company.</p> +<p>The intended effect, or should I say the risk, is that given a market share gained and maintained mostly by monopolistic practices and network effects, Microsoft Officer will lock its users in its very own,<br /> +incompatible and uninteroperable version of ODF. This is called <em>format filibustering</em> and it is an art Redmond has mastered over the years. I do urge Microsoft to reconsider these biased and unproductive practices.<br /> +They will only end up harming its customers. As for ODF, things are going to become very interesting, I think. This time, there is a real chance the market will not let Microsoft fool it again.<br /> +And what the market will ask for will be pure, unbiased ODF that can interact with various ODF-capable systems. This time, there will be no excuse.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=124&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_124" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></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>2009-05-06T23:00:52+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="fr"> <title type="html">DeVint 2009 : Septième journée Déficients Visuels et Nouvelles Technologies</title> <link href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/01/118-devint-2009-septieme-journee-deficients-visuels-et-nouvelles-technologies"/> @@ -409,7 +443,7 @@ <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>2009-05-05T23:00:48+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-05-06T23:00:52+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -482,7 +516,7 @@ <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>2009-05-05T23:00:48+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-05-06T23:00:52+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -502,7 +536,7 @@ <title type="html">andreasma_at_ooo</title> <link rel="self" href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss"/> <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss</id> - <updated>2009-05-06T17:00:50+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-05-06T23:00:53+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -523,7 +557,7 @@ Okay, sometimes you can read about Lotus Notes too</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2009-05-05T23:00:53+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-05-06T23:00:56+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -541,55 +575,7 @@ <title type="html">andreasma_at_ooo</title> <link rel="self" href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss"/> <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss</id> - <updated>2009-05-06T17:00:50+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Start of the Upgrade of OOoAuthors</title> - <link href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1375441/"/> - <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1375441/</id> - <updated>2009-04-05T19:50:52+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">This weekend I created a new Plone instance for OOoAuthors. I had to manage some issues. Now the first steps of the setup process are finished. We could start with customizing and copying the content from the current instance in the next days. This will last some time, because there is much content to copy. -The new instance will be much easier to maintain. It is setup with the current buildout process.</content> - <author> - <name>Andreas Mantke</name> - <uri>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">andreasma_at_ooo</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss"/> - <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss</id> - <updated>2009-05-06T17:00:50+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Links for the Beginning of Spring</title> - <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/</id> - <updated>2009-04-03T15:21:28+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><ul> -<li><a href="http://www.nuxified.org/article/overview_floss_email_client">I happen to write articles on email clients</a>. And this time, my friend <a href="http://standblog.org/blog/">Tristan Nitot</a> is not going to like it.</li> -<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Improving_The_Digital_Signature_Feature">Interesting description</a> of one of the upcoming features in OpenOffice.org: Secured digital signatures. Guess what, we will soon be the only ones to have them!</li> -<li>An excellent exemple on how native-language projects cooperate inside OpenOffice.org. <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CJK_Group/Minutes">Here</a>, you can see the Chinese, Japanese and Korean communities working to tackle common problems.My thanks to the teams and especially to Hirano Kazunari!</li> -<li>This time, Tristan will approve that one: <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/30/1438213">command line comes to the Firefox bar</a>, integrating completely Ubiquity to Firefox!</li> -<li>Unfortunate but expected, the French Minister of <strike>the Record Labels</strike> Culture, strongly supported by the Government has forced the Parliament to vote <a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en">the outrageous legislation on &#8220;illegal music downloading&#8221;</a>, treating 14 million of her own citizens like pirates. Here&#8217;s someone who must have some clear picture on what &#8220;serving private interests in detriment of the public good&#8221; means.</li> -<li>I have been asked this several times already this week, so let me clarify something: I do not work for Sun, nor for IBM and I do not know anything else about the buyout rumourthan what the press says.</li> -</ul> -<p>Enjoy your week-end!</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=120&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_120" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></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>2009-05-05T23:00:48+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-05-06T23:00:53+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1628&r2=1.1629 Delta lines: +31 -42 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-05-06 17:01:13+0000 1.1628 +++ index.html 2009-05-06 23:01:17+0000 1.1629 @@ -29,8 +29,38 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: May 06, 2009 05:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: May 06, 2009 11:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>May 06, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> +Charles Schulz</a> : +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/";> +ODF with no excuse</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p> Reports start to appear in the press about the ODF support quality enabled by the Service Pack 2 inside Microsoft Office 2007. I could say that I’m not surprised,<br /> +but I somewhat had also expected the contrary. Unfortunately it seems we have here a poor implementation of ODF. If further reports confirm it (and I have no serious doubt they will),<br /> +we will have the case of a monopolistic vendor messing up its own implementation of an open standard and have no viable excuse for doing so.</p> +<p>If we are to believe several reports who all link to <a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html";>Rob Weir’s own thorough review</a> ,<br /> +Microsoft has not only done a poor job implementing ODF, it has also ended up into a quite unique <em>endless loop phenomenon</em> . What this basically means is that in some instances<br /> +ODF documents created by Microsoft Office will only be readable and editable in… Microsoft Office. How was this possible? Apparently when you want to mess up something, you always find ways to do so.</p> +<p>It would be very tempting to assume that if such a loop, as I call it, was possible, then the real technical flaw has been lying inside the standard’s specification for quite some time. And you know what?<br /> +This is obviously the case… otherwise it would not have been possible, or else, MS does not produce conforming ODF documents. But the worst part may not even be there.</p> +<p>What we should perhaps realize today, is that one company charged of monopolistic abuse, after having imposed its own office document standard at the ISO (this one being itself under investigation),<br /> +is now trying to break the existing interoperability with the ODF standard. It would not be the first time Microsoft would have had this strategy. But it just reveals how little has changed inside this company.</p> +<p>The intended effect, or should I say the risk, is that given a market share gained and maintained mostly by monopolistic practices and network effects, Microsoft Officer will lock its users in its very own,<br /> +incompatible and uninteroperable version of ODF. This is called <em>format filibustering</em> and it is an art Redmond has mastered over the years. I do urge Microsoft to reconsider these biased and unproductive practices.<br /> +They will only end up harming its customers. As for ODF, things are going to become very interesting, I think. This time, there is a real chance the market will not let Microsoft fool it again.<br /> +And what the market will ask for will be pure, unbiased ODF that can interact with various ODF-capable systems. This time, there will be no excuse.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=124&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_124" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/";>by Charles at May 06, 2009 05:12 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>May 01, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/"; title="Sgauti at OOo"> @@ -525,47 +555,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>April 05, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/"; title="andreasma_at_ooo"> -Andreas Mantke</a> : -<a href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1375441/";> -Start of the Upgrade of OOoAuthors</a> -</h3> -<p> -This weekend I created a new Plone instance for OOoAuthors. I had to manage some issues. Now the first steps of the setup process are finished. We could start with customizing and copying the content from the current instance in the next days. This will last some time, because there is much content to copy. -The new instance will be much easier to maintain. It is setup with the current buildout process.</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1375441/";>by andreasma at April 05, 2009 07:50 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>April 03, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> -Charles Schulz</a> : -<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/";> -Links for the Beginning of Spring</a> -</h3> -<p> -<ul> -<li><a href="http://www.nuxified.org/article/overview_floss_email_client";>I happen to write articles on email clients</a>. And this time, my friend <a href="http://standblog.org/blog/";>Tristan Nitot</a> is not going to like it.</li> -<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Improving_The_Digital_Signature_Feature";>Interesting description</a> of one of the upcoming features in OpenOffice.org: Secured digital signatures. Guess what, we will soon be the only ones to have them!</li> -<li>An excellent exemple on how native-language projects cooperate inside OpenOffice.org. <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CJK_Group/Minutes";>Here</a>, you can see the Chinese, Japanese and Korean communities working to tackle common problems.My thanks to the teams and especially to Hirano Kazunari!</li> -<li>This time, Tristan will approve that one: <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/30/1438213";>command line comes to the Firefox bar</a>, integrating completely Ubiquity to Firefox!</li> -<li>Unfortunate but expected, the French Minister of <strike>the Record Labels</strike> Culture, strongly supported by the Government has forced the Parliament to vote <a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en";>the outrageous legislation on “illegal music downloading”</a>, treating 14 million of her own citizens like pirates. Here’s someone who must have some clear picture on what “serving private interests in detriment of the public good” means.</li> -<li>I have been asked this several times already this week, so let me clarify something: I do not work for Sun, nor for IBM and I do not know anything else about the buyout rumourthan what the press says.</li> -</ul> -<p>Enjoy your week-end!</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=120&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_120" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/";>by Charles at April 03, 2009 03:21 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 File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.1628&r2=1.1629 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-05-06 17:01:13+0000 1.1628 +++ opml.xml 2009-05-06 23:01:17+0000 1.1629 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Native Language Confederation Planet</title> - <dateModified>Wed, 06 May 2009 17:00:53 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:00:56 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Native Language Confederation</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.302&r2=1.303 Delta lines: +22 -25 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-05-01 23:01:12+0000 1.302 +++ rss10.xml 2009-05-06 23:01:17+0000 1.303 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-05-01:/blog/118" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-05-01:/blog/117" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-05-01:/blog/116" /> @@ -23,12 +24,31 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1385779/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-3509260218021730" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1377674/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1375441/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: ODF with no excuse</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/</link> + <content:encoded><p> Reports start to appear in the press about the ODF support quality enabled by the Service Pack 2 inside Microsoft Office 2007. I could say that I&#8217;m not surprised,<br /> +but I somewhat had also expected the contrary. Unfortunately it seems we have here a poor implementation of ODF. If further reports confirm it (and I have no serious doubt they will),<br /> +we will have the case of a monopolistic vendor messing up its own implementation of an open standard and have no viable excuse for doing so.</p> +<p>If we are to believe several reports who all link to <a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html">Rob Weir&#8217;s own thorough review</a> ,<br /> +Microsoft has not only done a poor job implementing ODF, it has also ended up into a quite unique <em>endless loop phenomenon</em> . What this basically means is that in some instances<br /> +ODF documents created by Microsoft Office will only be readable and editable in&#8230; Microsoft Office. How was this possible? Apparently when you want to mess up something, you always find ways to do so.</p> +<p>It would be very tempting to assume that if such a loop, as I call it, was possible, then the real technical flaw has been lying inside the standard&#8217;s specification for quite some time. And you know what?<br /> +This is obviously the case&#8230; otherwise it would not have been possible, or else, MS does not produce conforming ODF documents. But the worst part may not even be there.</p> +<p>What we should perhaps realize today, is that one company charged of monopolistic abuse, after having imposed its own office document standard at the ISO (this one being itself under investigation),<br /> +is now trying to break the existing interoperability with the ODF standard. It would not be the first time Microsoft would have had this strategy. But it just reveals how little has changed inside this company.</p> +<p>The intended effect, or should I say the risk, is that given a market share gained and maintained mostly by monopolistic practices and network effects, Microsoft Officer will lock its users in its very own,<br /> +incompatible and uninteroperable version of ODF. This is called <em>format filibustering</em> and it is an art Redmond has mastered over the years. I do urge Microsoft to reconsider these biased and unproductive practices.<br /> +They will only end up harming its customers. As for ODF, things are going to become very interesting, I think. This time, there is a real chance the market will not let Microsoft fool it again.<br /> +And what the market will ask for will be pure, unbiased ODF that can interact with various ODF-capable systems. This time, there will be no excuse.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=124&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_124" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-05-06T17:12:09+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-05-01:/blog/118"> <title>Sophie Gautier: DeVint 2009 : Septième journée Déficients Visuels et Nouvelles Technologies</title> <link>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/01/118-devint-2009-septieme-journee-deficients-visuels-et-nouvelles-technologies</link> @@ -442,28 +462,5 @@ <content:encoded>In the last week I finished the upgrade of the Joomla Content Management System, that we use for the site of our association OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. We use now Joomla 1.5.10. You can see a screenshot of the new site below. There are only very slight differences for the user. But it's a very big step forward for administrators.</content:encoded> <dc:date>2009-04-08T16:21:39+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1375441/";> - <title>Andreas Mantke: Start of the Upgrade of OOoAuthors</title> - <link>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1375441/</link> - <content:encoded>This weekend I created a new Plone instance for OOoAuthors. I had to manage some issues. Now the first steps of the setup process are finished. We could start with customizing and copying the content from the current instance in the next days. This will last some time, because there is much content to copy. -The new instance will be much easier to maintain. It is setup with the current buildout process.</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-04-05T19:50:52+00:00</dc:date> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/";> - <title>Charles Schulz: Links for the Beginning of Spring</title> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/</link> - <content:encoded><ul> -<li><a href="http://www.nuxified.org/article/overview_floss_email_client">I happen to write articles on email clients</a>. And this time, my friend <a href="http://standblog.org/blog/">Tristan Nitot</a> is not going to like it.</li> -<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Improving_The_Digital_Signature_Feature">Interesting description</a> of one of the upcoming features in OpenOffice.org: Secured digital signatures. Guess what, we will soon be the only ones to have them!</li> -<li>An excellent exemple on how native-language projects cooperate inside OpenOffice.org. <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CJK_Group/Minutes">Here</a>, you can see the Chinese, Japanese and Korean communities working to tackle common problems.My thanks to the teams and especially to Hirano Kazunari!</li> -<li>This time, Tristan will approve that one: <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/30/1438213">command line comes to the Firefox bar</a>, integrating completely Ubiquity to Firefox!</li> -<li>Unfortunate but expected, the French Minister of <strike>the Record Labels</strike> Culture, strongly supported by the Government has forced the Parliament to vote <a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en">the outrageous legislation on &#8220;illegal music downloading&#8221;</a>, treating 14 million of her own citizens like pirates. Here&#8217;s someone who must have some clear picture on what &#8220;serving private interests in detriment of the public good&#8221; means.</li> -<li>I have been asked this several times already this week, so let me clarify something: I do not work for Sun, nor for IBM and I do not know anything else about the buyout rumourthan what the press says.</li> -</ul> -<p>Enjoy your week-end!</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=120&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_120" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-04-03T15:21:28+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.303&r2=1.304 Delta lines: +22 -25 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-05-01 23:01:12+0000 1.303 +++ rss20.xml 2009-05-06 23:01:17+0000 1.304 @@ -8,6 +8,28 @@ <description>Native Language Confederation Planet - http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: ODF with no excuse</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/</link> + <description><p> Reports start to appear in the press about the ODF support quality enabled by the Service Pack 2 inside Microsoft Office 2007. I could say that I&#8217;m not surprised,<br /> +but I somewhat had also expected the contrary. Unfortunately it seems we have here a poor implementation of ODF. If further reports confirm it (and I have no serious doubt they will),<br /> +we will have the case of a monopolistic vendor messing up its own implementation of an open standard and have no viable excuse for doing so.</p> +<p>If we are to believe several reports who all link to <a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html">Rob Weir&#8217;s own thorough review</a> ,<br /> +Microsoft has not only done a poor job implementing ODF, it has also ended up into a quite unique <em>endless loop phenomenon</em> . What this basically means is that in some instances<br /> +ODF documents created by Microsoft Office will only be readable and editable in&#8230; Microsoft Office. How was this possible? Apparently when you want to mess up something, you always find ways to do so.</p> +<p>It would be very tempting to assume that if such a loop, as I call it, was possible, then the real technical flaw has been lying inside the standard&#8217;s specification for quite some time. And you know what?<br /> +This is obviously the case&#8230; otherwise it would not have been possible, or else, MS does not produce conforming ODF documents. But the worst part may not even be there.</p> +<p>What we should perhaps realize today, is that one company charged of monopolistic abuse, after having imposed its own office document standard at the ISO (this one being itself under investigation),<br /> +is now trying to break the existing interoperability with the ODF standard. It would not be the first time Microsoft would have had this strategy. But it just reveals how little has changed inside this company.</p> +<p>The intended effect, or should I say the risk, is that given a market share gained and maintained mostly by monopolistic practices and network effects, Microsoft Officer will lock its users in its very own,<br /> +incompatible and uninteroperable version of ODF. This is called <em>format filibustering</em> and it is an art Redmond has mastered over the years. I do urge Microsoft to reconsider these biased and unproductive practices.<br /> +They will only end up harming its customers. As for ODF, things are going to become very interesting, I think. This time, there is a real chance the market will not let Microsoft fool it again.<br /> +And what the market will ask for will be pure, unbiased ODF that can interact with various ODF-capable systems. This time, there will be no excuse.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=124&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_124" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 17:12:09 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Sophie Gautier: DeVint 2009 : Septième journée Déficients Visuels et Nouvelles Technologies</title> <guid>tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-05-01:/blog/118</guid> <link>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/01/118-devint-2009-septieme-journee-deficients-visuels-et-nouvelles-technologies</link> @@ -425,31 +447,6 @@ <description>In the last week I finished the upgrade of the Joomla Content Management System, that we use for the site of our association OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. We use now Joomla 1.5.10. You can see a screenshot of the new site below. There are only very slight differences for the user. But it's a very big step forward for administrators.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:21:39 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Andreas Mantke: Start of the Upgrade of OOoAuthors</title> - <guid>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1375441/</guid> - <link>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1375441/</link> - <description>This weekend I created a new Plone instance for OOoAuthors. I had to manage some issues. Now the first steps of the setup process are finished. We could start with customizing and copying the content from the current instance in the next days. This will last some time, because there is much content to copy. -The new instance will be much easier to maintain. It is setup with the current buildout process.</description> - <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:50:52 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>Charles Schulz: Links for the Beginning of Spring</title> - <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/</guid> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/04/03/links-for-the-beginning-of-spring/</link> - <description><ul> -<li><a href="http://www.nuxified.org/article/overview_floss_email_client">I happen to write articles on email clients</a>. And this time, my friend <a href="http://standblog.org/blog/">Tristan Nitot</a> is not going to like it.</li> -<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Improving_The_Digital_Signature_Feature">Interesting description</a> of one of the upcoming features in OpenOffice.org: Secured digital signatures. Guess what, we will soon be the only ones to have them!</li> -<li>An excellent exemple on how native-language projects cooperate inside OpenOffice.org. <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CJK_Group/Minutes">Here</a>, you can see the Chinese, Japanese and Korean communities working to tackle common problems.My thanks to the teams and especially to Hirano Kazunari!</li> -<li>This time, Tristan will approve that one: <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/30/1438213">command line comes to the Firefox bar</a>, integrating completely Ubiquity to Firefox!</li> -<li>Unfortunate but expected, the French Minister of <strike>the Record Labels</strike> Culture, strongly supported by the Government has forced the Parliament to vote <a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en">the outrageous legislation on &#8220;illegal music downloading&#8221;</a>, treating 14 million of her own citizens like pirates. Here&#8217;s someone who must have some clear picture on what &#8220;serving private interests in detriment of the public good&#8221; means.</li> -<li>I have been asked this several times already this week, so let me clarify something: I do not work for Sun, nor for IBM and I do not know anything else about the buyout rumourthan what the press says.</li> -</ul> -<p>Enjoy your week-end!</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=120&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_120" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></description> - <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:21:28 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
