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Andy Updegrove may have cracked the code on Oracle’s seemingly insane decision to start charging $90 for the formerly free ODF plugin for Microsoft Office.
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Understanding Oracle’s ODF Plug-in Pricing: What it Means for OpenOffice.org
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Understanding Oracle’s ODF Plug-in Pricing: What it Means for OpenOffice.org
April 28th, 2010 
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Posted in Open Source News 
Tags: Beauty, code, doling-out-very, end-item, odf, office, OpenOffice.org, sun, User, whatever-oracle 
No Comments »Will Simon Phipps Energize OSI?
March 12th, 2010 Admin
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Former Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps is joining the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board effective April 1st. Let’s hope Phipps can shake the organization up a bit. I’d hazard a guess that many newcomers to the open source community are partially or even wholly unaware of the OSI and what it’s meant to do, because the OSI has not been a terribly dynamic organization over the past few years
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Will Simon Phipps Energize OSI?
Posted in Open Source News Tags: board, danese-cooper, director, open source initiative, organization, osi, past, patent-trolling, seen-as-dormant, software-titans, source, sun, supreme-court No Comments »A Bright Future for Drizzle
March 10th, 2010 Admin
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It seems like there’s been little but bad news and resignations coming from Oracle since it finally managed to close the deal on Sun. Finally, there’s good news in that Drizzle seems to have a bright future ahead.
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A Bright Future for Drizzle
Posted in Open Source News Tags: directions, driver, drizzle, drizzle-project, goals, Hosting., infrastructure, linux, Mysql, oracle, pipes, software-titans, sun No Comments »OpenOffice.org 3.2: 10 Years in the Making
February 12th, 2010 Admin |
If you look back on the history of OpenOffice.org, it makes the 3.2 release that came out on Thursday the 11th even more impressive.
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OpenOffice.org 3.2: 10 Years in the Making
Posted in Open Source News Tags: document-format, end-item, history, improvements, interoperable, microsoft, Novell, numbers, open-source, OpenOffice.org, sun, windows, writer No Comments »Layoffs Won’t Stop Project Wonderland
February 6th, 2010 Admin |
Hats off to the Project Wonderland developers.
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Layoffs Won’t Stop Project Wonderland
Posted in Open Source News Tags: architect, Freedom, gpl, Java, knowledge, layoffs, open-source, oracle, platforms, project, second-life, sims, sun, team No Comments »
