Not stupidity, but continued cluelessness
I think I would describe MS’ weapon against open source not as stupidity as Michael Tiemann says, but plain cluelessness
Month: March 2008
Identity 2.0 and FreeIPA
A rather compelling presentation about Identity 2.0. I am wondering how the FreeIPA can play a role here?
Singapore and OOXML – the inconvenient truth?
Singapore: The Inconvenient Truth from catherinelim.sg on Vimeo. Not directly related to ooxml, but something that I think means a
Even more spinning – it’s time to wind down!
A commentator (and watcher) of my blog, says phunnily that people are “running out of technical arguments since the successful
I am humbled
Just found out that *I* am quoted on groklaw.net. Humbled. Thanks.
The things they get up to
It is hilarious and sad at the same time to see how our friends from Redmond are tripping all over
Document Freedom Day
I was hoping that I will be able to celebrate Document Freedom Day today, March 26, 2008, but because Singapore
Help me with this won’t you?
Sometime ago, I commissioned a sculptor to sculpt something that I can then give as my gift to the world.
The day after
I am looking forward to the day after the ITSC votes on the ooxml proposal. I am sure it will
Dialog and freedom in Tibet
I just signed an urgent petition calling on the Chinese government to respect human rights in Tibet and dialogue with
Common sense
Is said to be in short supply. I have been hearing of it for a long, long time from way
Fighting over a file format on a Pale Blue Dot?
Growing up, Carl Sagan was one of my heroes. I wanted to study under him in Cornell. Did not get
My almost final post on ooxml
I am annoyed and disappointed. Why is it that people are just not willing to listen to simple and reasonable
Looks like my alma mater has some good research on biofuels
I have been very keen on looking at ways to generate biofuels in a safe and clever way and it
Congrats Harald Welte and Groklaw
Good to read that groklaw.net and Harald Welte being awarded Project of Social Benefit by the Free Software Foundation. Well
ODF editor and his support of ooxml
It is interesting to read Patrick Durusau’s site. Specifically, the one in which he states: “Approve an admittedly rough DIS
India re-confirms OOXML Disapprove Vote
The first of the Asian countries that voted disapprove in September, has just reconfirmed their disapprove vote. Good to see
As we come close to the wire
In 9 days time, all the countries that are “P” (Participating) members SC34 of the ISO will have to revert
Continuing to lead the Free/Open Source space
Kudos to the Red Hat team responsible for the Certificate System in fully open sourcing the entire code base. It
What a pain wireless@sg continues to be!
Maybe it is just me, but using this wireless@sg stuff is just plain annoying. I try to use it whenever
Burma and Tibet
I cannot but be really annoyed with the fact that ASEAN has done nothing about the nonsense happening in Burma
Accelerating use of open source in development
Just came across an interesting article on the “Total Growth of Open Source” in which they are detailsing rather amazing
What goes into an Independent Commission of Inquiry
Continuing with the tragi-comedy that is the Great Escape (GE), the all knowing and all seeing powers that be have
What’s the coverup?
Now for something that has nothing to do with the ooxml comedy, but about another tragi-comedy being played out in
Good post, yk
I think that this is a great post that really shines additional light on some of the wasted efforts at
Is this for real?
It is nice to have some “survey” say that open source develpers earn MORE. For the sake of the credibility
So, what is the real US vote?
In this article, it notes that the US would agree to the ooxml and that the BRM was a success.
If the US can vote no, …
Good that others are pointing out that the US voted NO at the BRM. Singapore and Sri Lanka are the
A scary thought!
A car that could bsod!
SOEbroken
It is an unfortunate decision on the part of the IDA to award the SOE to a set of technologies
Broken vista!
Great article in NYT about what a market failure Vista is. It has been said many a times that the
Malaysia’s General Election
alternate sites for malaysiakini.com at: http://122.0.17.30. Some domain registrar has messed around with the malaysiakini.com DNS details!
Is there a long tail for Microsoft’s relevance?
In this article, the conclusion would be that MS is down for the count and is very unlikely to recover.
Expose MS’ tactics
Please send any additional information about MS’ tactics during this ooxml scam to the EU. They can surely use more
Ha!
Yet another stupid Microsoftism. ‘Nuf said.
Final vote at the brm – catastropic failure at BRM
Unrecoverable Application Error or UAE or BSOD to the nonsense ooxml stuff. So, some of the stuff was hand-waved through.