There can be only one
Submitted by Carlo on Thu, 31/01/2008 - 17:45I have been delighted to receive Microsoft's Andrea Valboni comments to my earlier post on OOXML. The answer, however, did not convince me at all.
Free software, digital liberties
OOXML v 2.0: things only get worse
Submitted by Carlo on Tue, 22/01/2008 - 17:07Update: comments from Microsoft's Andrea Valboni at the end of this post.
Show us the money
Submitted by Carlo on Wed, 09/01/2008 - 12:42Ten millions euro a year, three years, starting last year. A lot of money to innovation and open source for the Public Administration, financed by the National Italian Government. Nobody seems to have seen them, so somebody questioned the Ministry.
Stefano Maffulli has a campaign logo:
Roberto Galoppini reports:
Interview to /me and Mark Webbink
Submitted by Carlo on Thu, 03/01/2008 - 22:43Long forgotten, I have found again an article bearing an interview I gave to a very competent journalist, Dennis Byron, for ebizQ. The interview turned to be a recount by Dennis of the at-the-time current status of the Microsoft vs. EU Commission case. This is before the recent events that brought to an agreement between the Samba Team, through the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, and Microsoft (more details in my related entry).
Samba gains access to Microsoft infos
Submitted by Carlo on Thu, 20/12/2007 - 19:06
About time!
Almost four years after a Decision of the European Commission found Microsoft in blatant breach of antitrust laws, more than nine years after the initial complaint was filed by Sun Microsystems, we are seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. Today Microsoft and the Samba Team struck a deal to create the WSPP agreement.
Party time at Fluendo, Barcelona
Submitted by Carlo on Fri, 16/11/2007 - 10:57Big party yesterday at Fluendo, free flow of Champagne (well, almost), a lot of interesting people.
GNU GPL v.3
Submitted by Carlo on Fri, 02/11/2007 - 16:16There is still no translation of this article. I would not oppose anybody offering a translation. ;-)
Introduzione
Il 29 Giugno 2007 è stata pubblicata la terza versione della GNU GPL, la licenza “principe” del Software Libero – o Open Source. La nuova versione segue a quasi sedici anni di distanza la precedente versione. Perché questo evento era atteso con trepidazione – da qualcuno con ansia e qual è l'importanza di una licenza? Quali sono le conseguenze che l'approvazione di una licenza possono portare?