Our house is very quiet this morning – for the first time since we moved here, there’s just my wife and me in residence. Our offspring, both in their twenties, have flown the nest. Our friends report this is happening later and later in their families, with adult children finding it more and more difficult [...]
Since I made public my decision not to stand again for the OpenOffice.org. Community Council I’ve had a flurry of emails from people asking what the ‘real’ reason is: is it a consequence of the Oracle purchase of Sun Microsystems? and I disillusioned with the whole Council process? have I been offered a job by [...]
The OpenOffice.org Marketing Project produces daily statistics for the number of people downloading the software from our central download site. You can always see the latest version here – and an explanation of why this is a big underestimate of the number of people adopting OpenOffice.org here. Today’s graph (saved on this blog – click [...]
Four years ago, the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project put together some web pages to present the case for using OpenOffice.org, which we called Why OpenOffice.org? It’s a sign of the increasing level of worry in Microsoft that they have now produced their own Why Microsoft? pages. The recent launch of OpenOffice.org 3.2 ahead of MS-Office has [...]
Accordingly, it is Ordered that the <openoffice2009.com>, <openoffice-gratuit.com>, <openoffice09fr.com>, <openoffice-fr.com>, <openoffice-pt.com>, <openoffice-pl.com>, and <openoffice-nl.com> domain names be TRANSFERRED from Respondent to Complainant.. With this ruling, Sun Microsystems has scored a victory against one operator of para-sites – sites which extract money from naive people searching for OpenOffice.org – a free download. Unfortunately, it is only [...]
At last … we now have a temperamental but intermittently usable broadband connection at home … and so much has happened in the past month. The first ever face to face (f2f) meeting of the OpenOffice.org Community Council outwith a Conference … and OpenOffice.org 3.2 is announced to the community and to the world (after [...]
One of the evil tricks we used to play as kids was “sending someone to Coventry” – refusing to speak to them – a juvenile form of solitary confinement. Since moving house three weeks ago, I have been without broadband, and feel as if I have been “sent to Coventry” as far as taking part [...]
