Category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD
Slashdot: Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?
| October 19, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, OpenOffice.org |
A company executive from Quickoffice claims that OpenOffice.org users mostly save their documents in .DOC (Microsoft Office) file formats. Slashdot is wondering, is this true ? The Slashdot article is located here. The question remains and would be a good one to include in the next OpenOffice.org user survey. I personally save in ODF, the…
DesktopLinux.com: 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop
| October 18, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, Software you should try |
Kim Brebach enumerates in an article in DesktopLinux.com 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop, I would add: even if you still have Windows installed. The reasons in short: Cost Resources Performance No bloatware Security Dual booting Installation Reinstalling the OS Keeping track of software Updating software More security No need to defrag…
Non Windows worlds – Linux stories part 1
| October 17, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, Software you should try |
6 years ago, I was already tired of viruses, blank screens, blue screens, malware, spyware, the need to reinstall the operating system from time to time and all sorts of other Windows goodies which for a user born in the Microsoft era consume a lot of his daily time. I decided to investigate if there…
Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!
| October 13, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OpenOffice.org |
PRESS RELEASE: OpenOffice.org community celebrates its 7th anniversary 104 million downloads of the open source productivity suite Today, the open source project OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th birthday. Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000, continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads have been increasing…
Microsoft’s weapon against Open Source is IP
| October 10, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under FUD detector, OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a talk at a company event in the UK last week saying that Red Hat customers need to pay Microsoft for its beloved Intellectual Property.
Older news on SCO
| September 25, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
This article tells the story of SCO filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the decision of a federal judge who ruled in August that Novell, not SCO, owns the intellectual property to the Unix operating system.
OpenDocument is now ISO 26300 standard
| May 3, 2006 | Posted by cdriga under Legalese, OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
Quoting from consortiuminfo.org: “The six month voting window for ISO/IEC adoption of the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard closed on May 1, and at midnight (Geneva time) last night it was announced internally that ODF had been approved by the ISO members eligible and interested in casting a vote. The vote passed with broad participation…
Get Legal, Get OpenOffice.org – Campaign against software piracy
| May 3, 2006 | Posted by cdriga under Legalese, OpenOffice.org |
Press release One week after “World Intellectual Property Day”, the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project announces a new campaign: “Get legal – Get OpenOffice.org”. A new website – http://why.openoffice.org – explains how to escape from Microsoft Office licence costs and compliance worries – for good. Webmasters and bloggers worldwide are encouraged to display the campaign banner to…
Avoid pirated software
| May 1, 2006 | Posted by cdriga under Legalese, OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
There is a huge push on the software market at the moment for discouraging the usage of pirated software around the world and for detecting those who are using illegal software copies either for personal or for business purposes. There are even bounties for those reporting people and companies using illegal copies of software. Can…
GoodSpeed
| April 17, 2006 | Posted by cdriga under FUD detector, OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
In today’s computing technology, when you have more horse-power in the cheapest computers on the market than you would’ve dreamed say 5 years ago, one almost ridiculous aspect of the battle between open vs closed source software and open standards vs closed standards is the so called “fight of proving that my application is faster…
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