Last week I attended the First Internet Forum in Brazil, and I was surprised to see a representative of SindiTelebrasil (Brazilian Telcos Syndicate) reading a statement in one of the debate halls (at the Track 5 debate, where net neutrality was one of the themes), asking for some flexibility on the regulatory net neutrality definition […]

A few months ago I wrote a post announcing the completion of the ODF 1.2 development. On past Friday (September, 30), it was officially announced the approval of the standard at OASIS, and Rob Weir has published an excellent post on his blog telling a little bit of the history behind the specification, listing its […]

A few days ago we were all surprised by a document leaked  at CableGate, exchanged between the US embassy in Brazil and the American Government in 2007. According to this cable, Microsoft made serious accusations against the Brazilian government, and despite of the attempt to play the ’silly Microsoft’ at the meeting, they indirectly asked for […]

On the beginning of July, during the FISL (International Free Software Forum), in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the Brazilian Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Aloizio Mercadante, had a meeting with Brazillian hackers (Jon MadDog is almost Brazilian at this moment :)).

I was on that meeting, and we had the opportunity to present our FLOOS, Open […]

I believe that most people already know that on June 1st, Oracle announced the donation of the OpenOffice.org source code and trademark to the Apache Foundation. Initially the project was received by the Apache incubator, and the the discussion started there shortly after the announcement.
I’m following and participating in discussions since the first day at […]

In recent years I’ve been  following  the development and adoption of open standards internationally, and few months ago, I began to notice some strange movements and on behalf of them decided to write this article.
There are two undeniable facts in the information technology industry today, which often end up being forgotten in our day by […]

It was officially announced on last Saturday the approval of the ODF 1.2 Committee Specification by the OASIS ODF TC, the international committee that develops the ODF (OpenDocument Format) Standard. The next step is the approval of the ODF 1.2 by OASIS, and that ballot should be initiated in a few days.
By OASIS processes, a […]

A few years ago, I discovered almost by accident that Alfred Nobel (yes, the Nobel Prize guy) was actually the inventor of dynamite, and I was very curious about it, because how the man who invented something that killed and still killing thousands worldwide can give his name to the award that recognizes the people […]

A few months ago, I was at home drinking a beer and playing guitar when a blues riff  appeared on my mind. I immediately hooked my acoustic-electric guitar to my notebook and recorded the riff idea using a free software that is super versatile and useful called Audacity (besides being the “Swiss Army knife” of […]

On the May 1st, it was celebrated the fifth anniversary of the ODF 1.0 approval by OASIS ODF TC, and many interesting texts have been published since then. I waited a few days to post mine, and I see I did well, because now I can do an overview of what was written on the […]