ConsortiumInfo.org - Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF
Norway is the latest European country to move closer to mandatory government use of ODF (and PDF). According to a press release provided in translation to me by an authoritative source, Norway now joins Belgium, Finland, and France (among other nations) in moving [...]
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Standards: Will India ever wake up?
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Show us the code!
Well, this is what the community had to say to Steve Ballmer.
It’s come to many in the Linux community’s attention you have claimed again and again, that Linux violates Microsoft’s intellectual property. Not only that, but it’s been reported Microsoft has convinced businesses to pay for a Linux patent that you can’t provide.
So, Ballmer [...]
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Indic Input Extension
Indic Input Extension is an extension to Firefox that lets the user input Indian language content without much difficulty. It supports Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and a few other Indian languages for phonetic input. Needless to say, I wrote the ‘firefox’ part of it and the backend is mostly from the Entrans project, which [...]
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Mozilla and Firefox forked?
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
That was kind of hard to believe, but had to after I saw this page on gnu.org. Its true that it would not take more than a week to roll out another browser based on the free sources available from mozilla.org, but would this not dilute the dominance of mozilla and lead way to IE [...]
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Quickest Microsoft Patch Ever
It took three days for Microsoft to release a patch to its DRM after a hacker developed an application called FairUse4WM that strips the copy protection from Windows Media DRM 10 and 11 files.
Compare this with “Patch Tuesday” - the second Tuesday of every month, the day on which Microsoft releases security and other patches [...]
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Online Encoding Proxy
For all those people who are fed up of downloading fonts, one-per-website for all the Indian news-paper sites you visit… Here is a good news, the Swecha team has put up a web proxy for encoding conversion.
All you have to do is follow the link to your favorite news paper from http://uni.swecha.org/ [Offline at the [...]
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NetworkManager - Mobile Networking made Easy
NetworkManager:
Networking on Linux right now is painful for the mobile desktop user, especially in comparison to other operating systems. A laptop user should never need to use the command line or configuration files to manage their network; it should “Just Work” as automatically as possible and intrude as little as possible into the user’s workflow. [...]
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Ubuntu: Derivative or Fork?
LXer: Ubuntu: derivative or fork?:
Ubuntu has something special that no other distribution ever had before. It shipped its own CDs to you, anywhere in the world for free. It has money (10 million USD from Mark Shuttleworth) and can afford that. For Linux newbies out there, Ubuntu is like Windows. In much the same way [...]
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Economic Times article on OpenOffice.org
Goodbye MS Office, hello OpenOffice - The Economic Times:
OpenOffice, a multiplatform and multilingual office suite, gives users the chance to be Microsoft free — at last!
The Indian media has articles about free software — at last! Media has always had something with Microsoft, everything that Microsoft does, including realeasing a toilet paper would be great [...]
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Linux Driver Development Kit
linux kernel monkey log:
Have you ever felt teased when driver developers of other operating systems teased you about a lack of a “proper” driver development kit for Linux? Have you felt left out of the crowd when looking at the 36 cdrom package of documentation and example source code that other operating systems provide for [...]
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