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Infrastructure Linux News for Aug 31, 2007
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Short-Term/Long-Term: The Battle of OOXML (2007-08-31 22:30:10)
Editor's Note: "The short- versus long-term
argument is something that I see occur in history time and again.
People continually opt for short-term gains while ignoring the
long-term impacts of their decisions..."
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Microsoft's Failures with the OOXML Standard (2007-08-31 22:00:08)
Once More Unto the Breach: "An interesting bit
of technical experimentation was published in the past week in the
shadow of the vote. It shows something more pragmatically damning
than all of Rob Weir's hard work digging through faults in the
OOXML specification..."
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Meet Mark Radcliffe: The Man Who Rules Open Source Law (2007-08-31 21:00:25)
The Register: "As one of his clients told us,
'Mark Radcliffe is the law when it comes to open source
software...'"
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Hungary: No Official Position on OOXML (2007-08-31 20:00:29)
<NO>OOXML: "The repeated voting session
again was not legitimate, because it was not the secretary but the
general manager who sent out the invitation letters..."
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Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos: Getting Along With Redmond (2007-08-31 19:00:13)
LinuxInsider: "Linux platform provider Xandros
has taken one step further in a collaboration agreement with
Microsoft that it signed in June over how the two firms will handle
intellectual property on Linux interoperability projects..."
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GNOME 2.19.91 (GNOME 2.20.0 Beta 2) Released (2007-08-31 18:30:28)
[gnome-announce-list]: "This is our eighth
development release on our road towards GNOME 2.20.0, which will be
released in September 2007..."
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P Country Upgrades Continue--As Do Document Committee Signups as Well (2007-08-31 17:00:45)
ConsortiumInfo: "Earlier this week I reported
that there were nine new, last minute 'P' members of ISO. I also
predicted that the number could rise. Well, now that we're down to
the wire on the ISO/IEC vote on OOXML, it has..."
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Canonical Angles for Dell to Offer Pre-Installed Ubuntu Linux on the Server (2007-08-31 16:30:51)
SearchEnterpriseLinux: "As Canonical Ltd.
readies another major release for its Ubuntu Linux operating system
(code-named Gutsy Gibbon), one executive hinted that a
pre-installed server initiative would arrive soon if customer
demand remains high..."
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New Zealand Casts NO on Open XML Vote (2007-08-31 15:45:02)
Geekzone: "Standards New Zealand have casted a
'NO' vote on the proposal to adopt the Open XML draft Standard as
an international Standard..."
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LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2007 [UK] is Postponed (2007-08-31 15:00:31)
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo: "It is with
regret that we must announce that LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
2007 has been postponed until spring 2008..."
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OOXML News From Denmark (2007-08-31 14:15:11)
Groklaw: "Even though Microsoft denies having
put pressure on partners to get them involved in the OOXML debate,
some partners have experienced pressure from the software giant
anyway..."
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SCO CEO McBride Speaks Out On Novell, Finances, And Groklaw (2007-08-31 13:30:42)
InformationWeek: "Darl McBride says his company
has strong products and a growing number of customers, so it will
survive regardless of the outcome of legal battles..."
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France and OOXML: Majority Voted No with Comments in PreVote, But... Consensus Outcome Unknown (2007-08-31 12:45:24)
Groklaw: Apparently, the majority voted No with
Comments in a pre-vote, but I understand France is a country that
must reach consensus..."
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The Swedish OOXML Vote Has Been Declared Invalid (2007-08-31 12:45:10)
OS/2 World: "The Swedish Standards Institute
has tonight issued a press release where they declared this weeks
earlier vote regarding OOXML as invalid and by that Sweden don't
have any official position regarding OOXML any more..."
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RMS on the Ethics of Non-Free Art (2007-08-31 12:00:38)
Libervis: "Since I wasn't yet as clear as I'd
like to be on what can we consider to be free (as in freedom) among
works which are not software and not functional..."
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My Application of the Day: Kochizz for Apache2 Configuration (2007-08-31 10:30:59)
KDEDevelopers.org: "Kochizz is a Qt4-based GUI
tool to get to grips with the Apache2 configuration..."
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Boost Reliability with Ethernet Bonding and Linux (2007-08-31 07:30:25)
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: "An easy,
inexpensive way to double up Ethernet interfaces to get more more
bandwidth and reliability is called Ethernet bonding..."
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Installing phpGroupware (v. 0.9.16.012) (2007-08-31 06:00:40)
Blue-GNU: "Need a virtual office? You can try
phpGroupware, which is an official GNU Project..."
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Debugging Samba: Deciphering Access Denied (2007-08-31 04:30:53)
SearchEnterpriseLinux: "'Our motto is 'Bug for
bug, feature for feature, we are completely compatible with
Microsoft Windows,'' he said..."
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Can You Save the Planet by Switching to a "Black" Google? (2007-08-31 03:00:01)
ZDNet: "The LCD panel was fitted to a PC
running Windows Vista with the default desktop while the CRT was on
a system running Ubuntu, again with the default desktop..."
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