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3 Mar 2008
From the OOo February Newsletter
By italovignoli On 3 March 2008 In FOSS
Developer’s Guide is now in the Wiki The OpenOffice.org Developer’s Guide is now available online in the OpenOffice.org Wiki. The main purpose of moving the guide into the wiki is for maintenance reasons and the hope to
26 Feb 2008
Any idea?
By italovignoli On 26 February 2008 In FOSS
Any idea about the author of this sentence? The world is different today than it was 10 years ago, and so are we. Here on the city campus, MacBook Pros aren’t unheard of, and people with knowledge
22 Feb 2008
Open Letter to Microsoft
Today, we have decided to follow yesterday’s Microsoft announcement with an open letter to the company. This is my translation into English of the text (unfortunately, some of the extra care put in each word gets lost,
20 Feb 2008
OpenOffice.org is alive and well
According to Alfresco Open Source Barometer (you may find more here and here) OpenOffice.org is alive and well (and almost kicking Microsoft Office on the back in some countries, like Germany and France). Glyn Moody writes: One
19 Feb 2008
This is not a press release
By italovignoli On 19 February 2008 In FOSS
Apologies. On September 18, 2007, while announcing OpenOffice.org 2.3 we boldly stated that during the following 6 months the software would have been downloaded by one million people. At the time, it was a brave announcement, as
7 Feb 2008
Open Source ThinkTank
I’m in Napa for the Open Source ThinkTank. It’s a big event for the names attending but it’s a small event for the numbers as there are only 129 people from all over the world (actually, I
29 Jan 2008
Tipping Point
Nokia buys Trolltech, Sun buys MySQL, IBM endorses Ubuntu, the Asus EEE PC is a sales success and is featured almost everywhere, and so on. Open source is on the right track to get to the tipping
29 Jan 2008
OOo Resources
By italovignoli On 29 January 2008 In FOSS
Blogging has never been so popular inside the OOo Community. During last week, Florian Effenberg – Marketing Project Co-Lead – has put together the OOo Marketing Blog, and John McCreesh – Marketing Project Lead – has doubled
8 Jan 2008
Thanks, and happy 2008
By italovignoli On 8 January 2008 In FOSS
Thanks to Italian journalists, who have written around 2.000 articles about OpenOffice.org in 2007 and have made the Italian version of the suite the most "wanted" on Google. If you compare OpenOffice.org with Microsoft Office using Google
18 Dec 2007
No comments needed
By italovignoli On 18 December 2007 In FOSS
Brigadier General Nickolas G. Justice, Program Executive Officer, Command Control and Communications Tactical (C3T) of the US Army: Open source software is part of the integrated network fabric which connects and enables our command and control system