Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Eben Moglen Keynote
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Microsoft Open XML - a one-way standard?
It will be interesting to see how many competing implementations of MS Open XML we're going to see in the future. Since the specification is more than 6000 pages long it will be a huge task to implement. Some estimates about how long it will take can be found in this blog post by Andrew Shebanow.
That isn't all though, there are other problems with the format.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Microsoft lobbying in action...
It is fascinating how they far they went in trying to get the changes they wanted. It is also shows how important they think this is. Of course, since their office suite is one of their major cash cows, it is not surprising that they think it is important, but their hardball tactics made other peoples lives miserable. Money rules I guess...


