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FOSDEM followup: Fellowship section on reclaiming “Windows Tax”
During the Q&A session at the end of my keynote at FOSDEM 2007, some people were discussion the issue of the “Windows Tax” on all PCs and laptops: Most vendors will not sell you hardware without Windows licence for fear … Continue reading
Tagged Conference, Free Software, Microsoft
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The ‘Ow’ starts now
Today is the day when Microsoft Vista starts shipping, and this operating system may indeed turn out to be quite painful for governments, companies and users around the world. The main problem is not the graphical user interface. If you … Continue reading
Tagged DRM, Free Software, Microsoft, Open Standards, Vista
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Call for letters to ISO re: OpenXML
Following up on the articles "Novells ‘Danaergeschenk’", "Is OpenXML now a standard?", "OpenXML wrap-up after D12K" and "Why criticise OpenXML now?" I would like to make sure that everyone has had a look at the Groklaw article "Deadline Looms to … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, Microsoft, Open Standards, Politics
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Why criticise OpenXML now?
Some people raised the question why I have chosen to become verbal about OpenXML and Novell’s activities to include support for it in OpenOffice.org, and whether this has to do with the MS/Novell deal and the related public outcry. The … Continue reading
Tagged Antitrust, Free Software, IGF, Microsoft, Open Standards, Politics, UN
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OpenXML wrap-up after D12K
Publication of my article "Novells Danaergeschenk" on Groklaw.net has spurred quite some interesting reactions, like this interview with the Futurezone of the ORF, Austria’s national public-service broadcaster, titled "Streit ums Dateiformat der Zukunft" ("Controversy about the file format of the … Continue reading
Tagged Articles, Free Software, Microsoft, Open Standards, Politics
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Is OpenXML now a standard?
Today we learned that ECMA International has accepted Microsofts OpenXML as an ECMA standard, and that it did so against the vote of IBM. This is bad news for Open Standards, Free Software, competition and consumers. As explained in my … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, Microsoft, Open Standards, Politics
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Novells “Danaergeschenk”
The following article has just gone up on Groklaw, one of my favorite news sources, and is mirrored here for convenience. Permanent URLs for this article are: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061208135621706 http://www.fsfe.org/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/novells_danaergeschenk German is an interesting language, and many of its words … Continue reading
Tagged Articles, Free Software, Microsoft, Open Standards, Politics
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Piracy redefined, and other gems from Helsinki
End of last week I found myself at a seminar of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) in Helsinki, Finland. The seminar was titled "IPR Protection of Software: Copyright, Patent and/or Open Source?" and sponsors were in … Continue reading
Tagged Antitrust, Conference, Free Software, FSF, GPL, Microsoft, Politics
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Technical difficulties all around
It appears that this is a day of technical difficulties. After a thunderstorm seems to have taken out part of FSFE’s infrastructure in Sweden, leaving FSFE with a lost day of email connectivity, I took a look at BoingBoing.net, usually … Continue reading
Tagged (Not Quite), Fun, Idiocies, Microsoft
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Antitrust hearing, day 4 and 5: bringing out brass knuckles
Normally one might have used the phrase “the gloves are coming off” to describe the what happened on the last two days in court, but that would have implied the gloves were somehow on the days before. So it is … Continue reading