Archive for February, 2007

Why OpenOffice.org?

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

I’ve just uploaded the ‘tactical’ version of the why.openoffice.org site. This is intended to be a simple guide to the main features and benefits of the OpenOffice.org software package:

it’s great software
it’s easy to use
and it’s free

with a particular focus on the main target markets for the product:

governments and public administrations
educational establishments
businesses, especially small/medium enterprises (SMEs)
not-for-profit [...]

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Watch your language

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Celebrate UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day with OpenOffice.org

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Contributions? that’ll do nicely

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

I’ve commented before on Simon Phipps’ thoughts on the economics of open-source commununities: Each member is responsible for covering their own costs and because of that there’s a level playing field for all participants, and use without contribution is also OK. I came across a neat example of how this is working in practice with LightZone, [...]

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Britain sneezes

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Scene: Sunday morning in the kitchen, 9 o’clock, busy getting a casserole ready for the slow cooker. As usual, I had BBC Radio 4 on in the background, listening to the news:
Government vets have been working through the night to contain an outbreak of the deadly Asian strain of bird flu found at a [...]

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