Over at my alter-ego site, PCBurn.com, we’ve got a review up of Point & Click OpenOffice.org. Since Dan did such a damned good job blurbing it I think I’ll use his verbage for this post:
You might recognize Robin Miller by his nick “roblimo” on Slashdot. He’s been the editor in chief of various OSDN properties […]

In response to EU criticism that Microsoft didn’t release enough interoperability information on it’s server protocols to licensees, Microsoft released source code.
While that’s great, it’s not a map of the APIs that was requested.  It’s far less useful, as the receiver then has to wade through loads of crap to figure out what they need […]

This one caught me flat footed.  Now, if there is currently a company that defines being a “Huge American Corporation” it’s Microsoft.  They espouse especially American ideas of capitalizm and software as property.  They even try to float these ideas everwhere they sell their software, forcing them on local countries through American trade.
Now, as for […]

Showing off an incredible ability to dodge tough options, Europeans have come out in favor of solar and wind power as a replacement for ageing cole and nuclear plants.  While this is an excellent idea, it’s not technically feasible.
So what that adds up to for me is that they’re for natural gas and oil burning, […]

Those silly European pro-patent reformers are at it again.  Having failed last year in an attempt to stifle the software industry by imposing the same type of unreasonable patents we have here in America, pro-patent huge mega corporations are once again preaching doom to European MP’s unless they offer up free commerce on the continent […]

Apparently DIsney has succeded in it’s bid to buy back the magic.  Pixar studios is going off to the mouse for a cool 7.2 billion dollars in stock… making Steve Jobs the biggest shareholder of Mickey’s assets.
How is this all going to work out?  Disney’s been quick to can it’s entire animation department and pretty […]

Massachussets is leading the nation in government shakedowns on non-conformity.  Peter Quinn, former CIO of the state of Mass. decided that OpenDocument made the most sense for state users as a standard document format.  After all, it’s a well defined standard with many available editing programs to choose from, all well supported.
The fine state government […]

Once again a grandoise reference to “Music Sales” fails to address exactly what the statistics being used are comprised of. Generally, when people talk about music sales being down they’re speaking of shipments from (RIAA Members only?) big label warehouses. We’re not talking what actually sold at the store, which is what services like SoundScan […]

Don’t think I can even change the headline on this one. Anyway, if you need a good dark humor chuckle head over to the WiFi SM website and find out how to alleviate guilt through technology. And pain.

The US Supreme Court is declining to hear the Blackberry patent dispute case in a request on it’s relevance re: a foreign company.
While I’d think it’s pretty important to assert how a US patent law affects a companies based in a country in which it isn’t applicable or invalid, apparently it’s not important enough. Seems […]