User: jpmcc Date: 2009-10-01 10:58:52+0000 Modified: native-lang/www/planet/atom.xml native-lang/www/planet/index.html native-lang/www/planet/opml.xml native-lang/www/planet/rss10.xml native-lang/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Thu Oct 1 12:00:35 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=1.2210&r2=1.2211 Delta lines: +33 -64 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-10-01 04:59:00+0000 1.2210 +++ atom.xml 2009-10-01 10:58:49+0000 1.2211 @@ -5,10 +5,31 @@ <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>2009-10-01T05:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry> + <title type="html">Registration is open</title> + <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/registration-is-open.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-3332540983495316552</id> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">The registration for the annual OOoCon is now open http://conference.services.openoffice.org/index.php/ooocon/2009/schedConf/registration.</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 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>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry> <title type="html">Yet another city</title> <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/09/yet-another-city.html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-2624949812557043852</id> @@ -25,7 +46,7 @@ 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>2009-09-30T11:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -46,7 +67,7 @@ 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>2009-09-30T11:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -69,7 +90,7 @@ 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>2009-09-30T11:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -87,7 +108,7 @@ <title type="html">andreasma_at_ooo</title> <link rel="self" href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss"/> <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss</id> - <updated>2009-10-01T05:00:37+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:36+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -108,7 +129,7 @@ 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>2009-09-30T11:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -129,7 +150,7 @@ 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>2009-09-30T11:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -150,7 +171,7 @@ 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>2009-09-30T11:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -171,7 +192,7 @@ 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>2009-09-30T11:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -192,7 +213,7 @@ 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>2009-09-30T11:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -256,7 +277,7 @@ 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>2009-09-30T11:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -277,59 +298,7 @@ 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>2009-09-30T11:00:40+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">OpenOffice 3.1.1 released</title> - <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/08/openoffice-311-almost-released.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-2176431139066722436</id> - <updated>2009-08-31T19:54:21+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">Today Monday will be the day of OpenOffice.org 3.1.1. This is a bug-fix version and there are no actual new features this time.Be aware of fraud websites that are offering OpenOffice.org for money. In best case you will be paying for something that is actually free - or worse - you (sorry, your computer) will get infected by virus or trojans.OpenOffice.org is free. You can download it from</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 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>2009-09-30T11:00:40+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Mythbusting in the end of August</title> - <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/08/31/mythbusting-in-the-end-of-august/"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/08/31/mythbusting-in-the-end-of-august/</id> - <updated>2009-08-31T16:01:45+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Coming back from vacations I think it&#8217;s a good time to set the clocks back at the right time. The month of August was not vacation time for everyone. In fact, there was a small revolution that went unnoticed if you did not pay attention to the events inside the <a href="http://opensuse.org">OpenSuse Community</a>. There was also a <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10320382-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad">very good blog post by Matt Asay</a>, but Matt still does not get that sometimes official stats and metrics do not reflect the reality well.</p> -<p class="Standard">Today, I will try to bust some myths and attempt to explain why things are not always what they seem to be, especially in the field of Free/Libre and Open Source Software.</p> -<p class="Standard">Myth #1: KDE is not mature enough</p> -<p class="Standard">After some intense debate, <a href="http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090824#news">the OpenSuse Community has decided that KDE 4 would be its default desktop.</a></p> -<p class="Standard">This decision that some might find surprising is actually not so much a surprise than revealing the reality of the Linux desktop every day users. First, it shows that the Gnome desktop is not the most overwhelmingly used desktop environment for Linux. It may be the best funded desktop environment project, but it is not necessarily the most popular one (to be sure, it&#8217;s one of the two most popular Linux desktop environments). It is particularly striking to witness such a change inside the OpenSuse project. SUSE itself, before being integrated inside the Novell offerings, was a predominantly KDE distribution.</p> -<p class="Standard">But with its acquisition and the buyout of Ximian, Gnome became the default, dragging along all the niceties we have come to appreciate so far such as Mono. Don&#8217;t get me wrong; I&#8217;m not pondering whether KDE is a better desktop than Gnome: I&#8217;m just pointing out that for years we were told that there was no other way outside Gnome by some who had vested economic interests in this platform. KDE did its transformation through its 4.0 release, offering a brand new platform. Gnome has a different philosophy: it aims at developing an easy to use desktop that can be easily portable. I am sure that we will see some radical improvements in the Gnome 3.0 release, albeit at a different pace and in a different way. Yet KDE 4 is quickly picking up steam by using some appealing technologies such as Qt, while Gnome has to deal with a legacy platform and its different GTK versions. These liabilities make OpenOffice.org look like a lightweight web application in comparison. It is of course impossible at this stage to guess who will be the dominant desktop environment on Linux in the next 5 or 10 years. Times are changing. On a personal level, I most often use Gnome but spend more and more time on KDE. In fact, this blog is written on KDE.</p> -<p class="Standard">The announcement by the OpenSuse Community that it would revert back to KDE will hopefully help dispell some myths about the immaturity of KDE 4 and all the advantages of Gnome.</p> -<p class="Standard">Myth #2: OpenOffice.org has an anemic market share.</p> -<p class="Standard">The use of the word &#8220;anemic&#8221; comes from Matt Asay&#8217;s blog. Let me make this straight: OpenOffice.org in its sole 3.1 release has generated over 20 million downloads. The news can be found at the OpenOffice.org website, but the bottomline is that our infrastructure is suffering from the number of downloads. These downloads are just the ones officially counted in our infrastructure. There are many servers out there we simply don&#8217;t count in our stats. These downloads do not take into account the number of OpenOffice.org suites shipped with Linux distributions, and the numbers of these ones may be subject to controversy: but pretending that the total Linux market share for desktop is ridiculous (typically less than 2 %) is now more an ideological statement than an estimation to rely on. Fedora unique downloads and IP addresses &#8216; counters report over a million users of Fedora 10. What about Ubuntu and its flavors? But let&#8217;s go back to OpenOffice.org: 20 million downloads for the 3.1 release, and we just released <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org 3.1.1</a> .</p> -<p class="Standard">Of course, these numbers may look anemic when compared to Microsoft Office. But the comparison may not be quite relevant; I don&#8217;t know many people who rush over to download Microsoft Office for free. They usually get it on their computers and don&#8217;t think about it much further. So Matt is essentially comparing apples to bananas. MS Office does not have to walk all the way to the user; it basically lands on consumers, thanks to longstanding OEM agreements with Microsoft and monopolistic practices. OpenOffice.org does not do that. We may be anemic to some, but we will never be monopolistic to anyone.</p> -<p class="Standard">&nbsp;</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=137&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_137" 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>2009-09-29T23:00:45+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.2210&r2=1.2211 Delta lines: +16 -42 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-10-01 04:59:00+0000 1.2210 +++ index.html 2009-10-01 10:58:49+0000 1.2211 @@ -29,8 +29,23 @@ <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: October 01, 2009 05:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: October 01, 2009 11:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<h2>October 01, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog"> +Leif Lodahl</a> : +<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/registration-is-open.html";> +Registration is open</a> +</h3> +<p> +The registration for the annual OOoCon is now open http://conference.services.openoffice.org/index.php/ooocon/2009/schedConf/registration.</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/registration-is-open.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([email protected]) at October 01, 2009 11:00 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>September 29, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog"> @@ -236,47 +251,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>August 31, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog"> -Leif Lodahl</a> : -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/08/openoffice-311-almost-released.html";> -OpenOffice 3.1.1 released</a> -</h3> -<p> -Today Monday will be the day of OpenOffice.org 3.1.1. This is a bug-fix version and there are no actual new features this time.Be aware of fraud websites that are offering OpenOffice.org for money. In best case you will be paying for something that is actually free - or worse - you (sorry, your computer) will get infected by virus or trojans.OpenOffice.org is free. You can download it from</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/08/openoffice-311-almost-released.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([email protected]) at August 31, 2009 07:54 PM BST</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<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/2009/08/31/mythbusting-in-the-end-of-august/";> -Mythbusting in the end of August</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Coming back from vacations I think it’s a good time to set the clocks back at the right time. The month of August was not vacation time for everyone. In fact, there was a small revolution that went unnoticed if you did not pay attention to the events inside the <a href="http://opensuse.org";>OpenSuse Community</a>. There was also a <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10320382-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad";>very good blog post by Matt Asay</a>, but Matt still does not get that sometimes official stats and metrics do not reflect the reality well.</p> -<p class="Standard">Today, I will try to bust some myths and attempt to explain why things are not always what they seem to be, especially in the field of Free/Libre and Open Source Software.</p> -<p class="Standard">Myth #1: KDE is not mature enough</p> -<p class="Standard">After some intense debate, <a href="http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090824#news";>the OpenSuse Community has decided that KDE 4 would be its default desktop.</a></p> -<p class="Standard">This decision that some might find surprising is actually not so much a surprise than revealing the reality of the Linux desktop every day users. First, it shows that the Gnome desktop is not the most overwhelmingly used desktop environment for Linux. It may be the best funded desktop environment project, but it is not necessarily the most popular one (to be sure, it’s one of the two most popular Linux desktop environments). It is particularly striking to witness such a change inside the OpenSuse project. SUSE itself, before being integrated inside the Novell offerings, was a predominantly KDE distribution.</p> -<p class="Standard">But with its acquisition and the buyout of Ximian, Gnome became the default, dragging along all the niceties we have come to appreciate so far such as Mono. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not pondering whether KDE is a better desktop than Gnome: I’m just pointing out that for years we were told that there was no other way outside Gnome by some who had vested economic interests in this platform. KDE did its transformation through its 4.0 release, offering a brand new platform. Gnome has a different philosophy: it aims at developing an easy to use desktop that can be easily portable. I am sure that we will see some radical improvements in the Gnome 3.0 release, albeit at a different pace and in a different way. Yet KDE 4 is quickly picking up steam by using some appealing technologies such as Qt, while Gnome has to deal with a legacy platform and its different GTK versions. These liabilities make OpenOffice.org look like a lightweight web application in comparison. It is of course impossible at this stage to guess who will be the dominant desktop environment on Linux in the next 5 or 10 years. Times are changing. On a personal level, I most often use Gnome but spend more and more time on KDE. In fact, this blog is written on KDE.</p> -<p class="Standard">The announcement by the OpenSuse Community that it would revert back to KDE will hopefully help dispell some myths about the immaturity of KDE 4 and all the advantages of Gnome.</p> -<p class="Standard">Myth #2: OpenOffice.org has an anemic market share.</p> -<p class="Standard">The use of the word “anemic” comes from Matt Asay’s blog. Let me make this straight: OpenOffice.org in its sole 3.1 release has generated over 20 million downloads. The news can be found at the OpenOffice.org website, but the bottomline is that our infrastructure is suffering from the number of downloads. These downloads are just the ones officially counted in our infrastructure. There are many servers out there we simply don’t count in our stats. These downloads do not take into account the number of OpenOffice.org suites shipped with Linux distributions, and the numbers of these ones may be subject to controversy: but pretending that the total Linux market share for desktop is ridiculous (typically less than 2 %) is now more an ideological statement than an estimation to rely on. Fedora unique downloads and IP addresses ‘ counters report over a million users of Fedora 10. What about Ubuntu and its flavors? But let’s go back to OpenOffice.org: 20 million downloads for the 3.1 release, and we just released <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice.org 3.1.1</a> .</p> -<p class="Standard">Of course, these numbers may look anemic when compared to Microsoft Office. But the comparison may not be quite relevant; I don’t know many people who rush over to download Microsoft Office for free. They usually get it on their computers and don’t think about it much further. So Matt is essentially comparing apples to bananas. MS Office does not have to walk all the way to the user; it basically lands on consumers, thanks to longstanding OEM agreements with Microsoft and monopolistic practices. OpenOffice.org does not do that. We may be anemic to some, but we will never be monopolistic to anyone.</p> -<p class="Standard"> </p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=137&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_137" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/08/31/mythbusting-in-the-end-of-august/";>by Charles at August 31, 2009 04:01 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=1.2210&r2=1.2211 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-10-01 04:59:00+0000 1.2210 +++ opml.xml 2009-10-01 10:58:49+0000 1.2211 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Native Language Confederation Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:00:40 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:00:40 +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=1.360&r2=1.361 Delta lines: +8 -27 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-09-29 16:59:03+0000 1.360 +++ rss10.xml 2009-10-01 10:58:49+0000 1.361 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-3332540983495316552" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-2624949812557043852" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-8718185590131291864" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-9216480267512724012" /> @@ -25,12 +26,17 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-09-13:/blog/125" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-8061074245084276781" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-1684845849941232610" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-2176431139066722436" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/08/31/mythbusting-in-the-end-of-august/"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-3332540983495316552"> + <title>Leif Lodahl: Registration is open</title> + <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/registration-is-open.html</link> + <content:encoded>The registration for the annual OOoCon is now open http://conference.services.openoffice.org/index.php/ooocon/2009/schedConf/registration.</content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-10-01T11:00:39+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-2624949812557043852"> <title>Leif Lodahl: Yet another city</title> <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/09/yet-another-city.html</link> @@ -140,30 +146,5 @@ <dc:date>2009-09-02T22:15:52+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-2176431139066722436"> - <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice 3.1.1 released</title> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/08/openoffice-311-almost-released.html</link> - <content:encoded>Today Monday will be the day of OpenOffice.org 3.1.1. This is a bug-fix version and there are no actual new features this time.Be aware of fraud websites that are offering OpenOffice.org for money. In best case you will be paying for something that is actually free - or worse - you (sorry, your computer) will get infected by virus or trojans.OpenOffice.org is free. You can download it from</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-08-31T19:54:21+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/08/31/mythbusting-in-the-end-of-august/";> - <title>Charles Schulz: Mythbusting in the end of August</title> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/08/31/mythbusting-in-the-end-of-august/</link> - <content:encoded><p>Coming back from vacations I think it&#8217;s a good time to set the clocks back at the right time. The month of August was not vacation time for everyone. In fact, there was a small revolution that went unnoticed if you did not pay attention to the events inside the <a href="http://opensuse.org">OpenSuse Community</a>. There was also a <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10320382-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad">very good blog post by Matt Asay</a>, but Matt still does not get that sometimes official stats and metrics do not reflect the reality well.</p> -<p class="Standard">Today, I will try to bust some myths and attempt to explain why things are not always what they seem to be, especially in the field of Free/Libre and Open Source Software.</p> -<p class="Standard">Myth #1: KDE is not mature enough</p> -<p class="Standard">After some intense debate, <a href="http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090824#news">the OpenSuse Community has decided that KDE 4 would be its default desktop.</a></p> -<p class="Standard">This decision that some might find surprising is actually not so much a surprise than revealing the reality of the Linux desktop every day users. First, it shows that the Gnome desktop is not the most overwhelmingly used desktop environment for Linux. It may be the best funded desktop environment project, but it is not necessarily the most popular one (to be sure, it&#8217;s one of the two most popular Linux desktop environments). It is particularly striking to witness such a change inside the OpenSuse project. SUSE itself, before being integrated inside the Novell offerings, was a predominantly KDE distribution.</p> -<p class="Standard">But with its acquisition and the buyout of Ximian, Gnome became the default, dragging along all the niceties we have come to appreciate so far such as Mono. Don&#8217;t get me wrong; I&#8217;m not pondering whether KDE is a better desktop than Gnome: I&#8217;m just pointing out that for years we were told that there was no other way outside Gnome by some who had vested economic interests in this platform. KDE did its transformation through its 4.0 release, offering a brand new platform. Gnome has a different philosophy: it aims at developing an easy to use desktop that can be easily portable. I am sure that we will see some radical improvements in the Gnome 3.0 release, albeit at a different pace and in a different way. Yet KDE 4 is quickly picking up steam by using some appealing technologies such as Qt, while Gnome has to deal with a legacy platform and its different GTK versions. These liabilities make OpenOffice.org look like a lightweight web application in comparison. It is of course impossible at this stage to guess who will be the dominant desktop environment on Linux in the next 5 or 10 years. Times are changing. On a personal level, I most often use Gnome but spend more and more time on KDE. In fact, this blog is written on KDE.</p> -<p class="Standard">The announcement by the OpenSuse Community that it would revert back to KDE will hopefully help dispell some myths about the immaturity of KDE 4 and all the advantages of Gnome.</p> -<p class="Standard">Myth #2: OpenOffice.org has an anemic market share.</p> -<p class="Standard">The use of the word &#8220;anemic&#8221; comes from Matt Asay&#8217;s blog. Let me make this straight: OpenOffice.org in its sole 3.1 release has generated over 20 million downloads. The news can be found at the OpenOffice.org website, but the bottomline is that our infrastructure is suffering from the number of downloads. These downloads are just the ones officially counted in our infrastructure. There are many servers out there we simply don&#8217;t count in our stats. These downloads do not take into account the number of OpenOffice.org suites shipped with Linux distributions, and the numbers of these ones may be subject to controversy: but pretending that the total Linux market share for desktop is ridiculous (typically less than 2 %) is now more an ideological statement than an estimation to rely on. Fedora unique downloads and IP addresses &#8216; counters report over a million users of Fedora 10. What about Ubuntu and its flavors? But let&#8217;s go back to OpenOffice.org: 20 million downloads for the 3.1 release, and we just released <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org 3.1.1</a> .</p> -<p class="Standard">Of course, these numbers may look anemic when compared to Microsoft Office. But the comparison may not be quite relevant; I don&#8217;t know many people who rush over to download Microsoft Office for free. They usually get it on their computers and don&#8217;t think about it much further. So Matt is essentially comparing apples to bananas. MS Office does not have to walk all the way to the user; it basically lands on consumers, thanks to longstanding OEM agreements with Microsoft and monopolistic practices. OpenOffice.org does not do that. We may be anemic to some, but we will never be monopolistic to anyone.</p> -<p class="Standard">&nbsp;</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=137&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_137" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-08-31T16:01:45+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=1.361&r2=1.362 Delta lines: +8 -27 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-09-29 16:59:03+0000 1.361 +++ rss20.xml 2009-10-01 10:58:49+0000 1.362 @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ <description>Native Language Confederation Planet - http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Leif Lodahl: Registration is open</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-3332540983495316552</guid> + <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/registration-is-open.html</link> + <description>The registration for the annual OOoCon is now open http://conference.services.openoffice.org/index.php/ooocon/2009/schedConf/registration.</description> + <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> +</item> +<item> <title>Leif Lodahl: Yet another city</title> <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-2624949812557043852</guid> <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/09/yet-another-city.html</link> @@ -127,33 +135,6 @@ <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:15:52 +0000</pubDate> <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> </item> -<item> - <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice 3.1.1 released</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-2176431139066722436</guid> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/08/openoffice-311-almost-released.html</link> - <description>Today Monday will be the day of OpenOffice.org 3.1.1. This is a bug-fix version and there are no actual new features this time.Be aware of fraud websites that are offering OpenOffice.org for money. In best case you will be paying for something that is actually free - or worse - you (sorry, your computer) will get infected by virus or trojans.OpenOffice.org is free. You can download it from</description> - <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:54:21 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> -</item> -<item> - <title>Charles Schulz: Mythbusting in the end of August</title> - <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/08/31/mythbusting-in-the-end-of-august/</guid> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/08/31/mythbusting-in-the-end-of-august/</link> - <description><p>Coming back from vacations I think it&#8217;s a good time to set the clocks back at the right time. The month of August was not vacation time for everyone. In fact, there was a small revolution that went unnoticed if you did not pay attention to the events inside the <a href="http://opensuse.org">OpenSuse Community</a>. There was also a <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10320382-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad">very good blog post by Matt Asay</a>, but Matt still does not get that sometimes official stats and metrics do not reflect the reality well.</p> -<p class="Standard">Today, I will try to bust some myths and attempt to explain why things are not always what they seem to be, especially in the field of Free/Libre and Open Source Software.</p> -<p class="Standard">Myth #1: KDE is not mature enough</p> -<p class="Standard">After some intense debate, <a href="http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090824#news">the OpenSuse Community has decided that KDE 4 would be its default desktop.</a></p> -<p class="Standard">This decision that some might find surprising is actually not so much a surprise than revealing the reality of the Linux desktop every day users. First, it shows that the Gnome desktop is not the most overwhelmingly used desktop environment for Linux. It may be the best funded desktop environment project, but it is not necessarily the most popular one (to be sure, it&#8217;s one of the two most popular Linux desktop environments). It is particularly striking to witness such a change inside the OpenSuse project. SUSE itself, before being integrated inside the Novell offerings, was a predominantly KDE distribution.</p> -<p class="Standard">But with its acquisition and the buyout of Ximian, Gnome became the default, dragging along all the niceties we have come to appreciate so far such as Mono. Don&#8217;t get me wrong; I&#8217;m not pondering whether KDE is a better desktop than Gnome: I&#8217;m just pointing out that for years we were told that there was no other way outside Gnome by some who had vested economic interests in this platform. KDE did its transformation through its 4.0 release, offering a brand new platform. Gnome has a different philosophy: it aims at developing an easy to use desktop that can be easily portable. I am sure that we will see some radical improvements in the Gnome 3.0 release, albeit at a different pace and in a different way. Yet KDE 4 is quickly picking up steam by using some appealing technologies such as Qt, while Gnome has to deal with a legacy platform and its different GTK versions. These liabilities make OpenOffice.org look like a lightweight web application in comparison. It is of course impossible at this stage to guess who will be the dominant desktop environment on Linux in the next 5 or 10 years. Times are changing. On a personal level, I most often use Gnome but spend more and more time on KDE. In fact, this blog is written on KDE.</p> -<p class="Standard">The announcement by the OpenSuse Community that it would revert back to KDE will hopefully help dispell some myths about the immaturity of KDE 4 and all the advantages of Gnome.</p> -<p class="Standard">Myth #2: OpenOffice.org has an anemic market share.</p> -<p class="Standard">The use of the word &#8220;anemic&#8221; comes from Matt Asay&#8217;s blog. Let me make this straight: OpenOffice.org in its sole 3.1 release has generated over 20 million downloads. The news can be found at the OpenOffice.org website, but the bottomline is that our infrastructure is suffering from the number of downloads. These downloads are just the ones officially counted in our infrastructure. There are many servers out there we simply don&#8217;t count in our stats. These downloads do not take into account the number of OpenOffice.org suites shipped with Linux distributions, and the numbers of these ones may be subject to controversy: but pretending that the total Linux market share for desktop is ridiculous (typically less than 2 %) is now more an ideological statement than an estimation to rely on. Fedora unique downloads and IP addresses &#8216; counters report over a million users of Fedora 10. What about Ubuntu and its flavors? But let&#8217;s go back to OpenOffice.org: 20 million downloads for the 3.1 release, and we just released <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org 3.1.1</a> .</p> -<p class="Standard">Of course, these numbers may look anemic when compared to Microsoft Office. But the comparison may not be quite relevant; I don&#8217;t know many people who rush over to download Microsoft Office for free. They usually get it on their computers and don&#8217;t think about it much further. So Matt is essentially comparing apples to bananas. MS Office does not have to walk all the way to the user; it basically lands on consumers, thanks to longstanding OEM agreements with Microsoft and monopolistic practices. OpenOffice.org does not do that. We may be anemic to some, but we will never be monopolistic to anyone.</p> -<p class="Standard">&nbsp;</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=137&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_137" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></description> - <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:01:45 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
