KOffice's stance against OOXML more practical than political, developer says
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| In the recent accusations that the GNOME Foundation has been supporting
| Microsoft's OOXML format at the expense of ODF, KDE has been presented as a
| counter-example. Based on a KDE News article, Richard Stallman suggested
| that "major KDE developers" had announced "their rejection of OOXML" and
| urged GNOME to do the same. More recently, a widely linked story on ITWire
| used the same article to declare that KDE has taken a "principled stand"
| against OOXML. However, if you go the source, the story is more nuanced than
| these claims suggest.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/123597
GNOME: the cowboy project
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| While the GNOME Foundation media spokesman Jeff Waugh claimed recently that
| Miguel de Icaza has no official role in the GNOME project anymore, it is
| common to see long posts from De Icaza on the Planet GNOME website. This site
| is meant for GNOME developers.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15864/1148/
Read the discussion here:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-12-19-017-26-OP-GN-KE
Related:
OpenOffice Alternative: KWord 1.6
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| OpenOffice is the darling of the FOSS office suites, and it is a nice suite.
| It's cross-platform, and OpenOffice Writer is a first-rate word processor
| with a lot of advanced features. But it's not the only good option for Linux
| users: Abiword and KWord are excellent lightweight word processors with good
| feature sets, and both are licensed under the GPL.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3715536
KDE takes stand on OOXML; GNOME dithers
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| Three cheers for the developers and management of the K Desktop Environment.
| They have taken a principled stand on the divisive issue of OOXML, the
| Microsoft Office Open XML document format. And for this the KDE folk deserve
| a round of applause.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/15738/1091/
Engineering Industry support for OOXML - Novell
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| Wikipedia: "A puppet is a representational object manipulated by a puppeteer.
| It is usually but not always a depiction of a human character and is used in
| (a) play or a presentation. The puppet undergoes a process of transformation
| through being animated, and is normally manipulated by one, or sometimes more
| than one, puppeteer. Some puppets can be moved electronically." Does Novell
| qualify as an OOXML puppet?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30546/engineering-industry-support-for-ooxml-novell
All sides of the debate?
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| How many sides are there in the OOXML debate? What if all sides are Microsoft
| and Microsoft business partners?
|
| [...]
|
| Dough Mahugh (Microsoft) :
|
| Next week's XML 2007 conference in Boston features speakers from all
| sides of the document format debate, including a document interop session
| with Miguel de Icaza (Novell) and Vijay Rajagopalan (Microsoft) that I
| expect will offer a lively discussion around Open XML, ODF, and XML-based
| interoperability in general.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-29108/all-sides-of-the-debate
OpenSolaris, Gobuntu, and be careful who you kiss
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| I read the agreement between Xandros and Microsoft, and one of the excluded
| products was Mono, so Microsoft promises to not sue Xandros over their
| distribution but excluding Mono and a few other products, i.e. they reserve
| the right to sue over Mono. I wonder if this is an interesting preview of on
| what basis they want to fight the free world.
|
| Interestingly, the Novell deal seems to be different, Mono is not excluded
| from the Novell deal. So Microsoft seems to be promising not to sue Novell
| over Mono, but keeps the option open for Xandros. Weird but true.
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http://commandline.org.uk/2007/be-careful-who-you-kiss/
Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
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| is Mono's role in the deal that of a hook to make customers write
| .NET applications because they can be run on Linux - only to find
| later on that they are armless or legless because of a change in
| the .NETspecifications, a change which Microsoft decides not to
| make public?
|
| [...]
|
| And here we have an individual who decides to replicate one of
| the proprietary company's development environments - for reasons
| best known to him alone - and keeps telling people that the reason
| he's doing it is so that he can pull people over from the
| proprietary company's side to his side!!!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11081&Itemid=1091
Available Now: OpenOffice.org Novell Edition for Windows
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| Let's consider a couple of the features that you get in the Novell
| Edition but are not likely to have been integrated into upstream OOo yet:
|
| * Excel VBA Macro execution
| * Performance improvements
| * AGFA fonts
| * Better Bullets (now in upstream OOo)
| * Simple Solver
| * GroupWise integration
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http://reverendted.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/ooo-novell-edition-now-available-for-windows/
Sun Refuses LGPL for OpenOffice; Novell forks
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| Because of Sun's refusal to accept LPGL extensions in the upstream code,
| Michael Meeks (who recently talked about Sun's OO.o community failings, and
| ODF and OOXML) has announced ooo-build (previously just for build fixes) is
| now a formal fork of OpenOffice to be located at http://go-oo.org/.
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http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/03/1212234.shtml
Questions I'd like to see asked about the Microsoft-Novell deal
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| The questions asked as part of this study were about as open-ended
| and wishy-washy as you could get. Researchers asked customers
| deploying a mix of Windows, SuSE Linux and Red Hat Linux whether
| they were in favor of more vendor interoperability. They asked
| customers if they believed it would be helpful if Microsoft
| worked more closely with Linux vendors. They asked whether they
| approved of the Microsoft-Novell collaboration. And they
| questioned whether users "take responsibility for the
| intellectual property in the products they ship."
|
| The only question on PSB's list that I found remotely interesting
| was whether users would be any more likely to buy SuSE Linux as a
| result of the Microsoft-Novell deal. Sixty-nine percent said yes.
| (I'm actually surprised this number isn't higher.)
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=145
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