The Dude
abides.I wrote an APDIP e-Note on Electronic Document Standards which was published yesterday on their website. The e-Note covers background on document standards, introduces ODF and its relevance and covers PDF as well as OOXML. Do read it. This post will accept comments, so do send me your feedback.
Cheers.
It seems that the <NO> OOXML (”<TAK NAK> OOXML” in Malay) site is gaining incredible popularity. At last view, it has 13058 signatories. I remember that earlier this week the number stood at only 3000 signatories. Clearly, there is strong interest in ensuring that this standard is not ram-rodded through ISO.
As the balloting date for [...]
Headsup!
Bob Sutor, the IBM Vice President for Open Source and Open Standards, will be speaking in Malaysia on open source and open standards. He will be speaking in two places, first at the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers on the 19th April 2007 on “Opening Up Your Business Software: Why and When“. This talk would be [...]
I finished the second draft of my ODF paper. I had to substantially rework certain parts so as to not offend certain large convicted monopolists and extensively reference existing ODF deployments, lest the FUDlobbying engine goes to work against the paper. Which, if you think about it, this is a subtle form of intimidation. Why [...]
The FLOSSWorld Workshop was conducted today to discuss the findings of the OSS survey conducted in Malaysia by MIMOS in the governmental, industry and developer communities. Much was said and done; sessions were conducted proficiently and there was a healthy exchange of ideas.
That’s the good part of it.
The bad part of it is that [...]
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