As they did in the past with Java and HTML (just to cite two cases), Microsoft has now invested at least 12 months of work to try to fragment the ODF in the IT market: A shame.I swear I was ready to publish this week a post praising Microsoft for finally released SP2 of Office […]

Received in recent days several documents from JTC1/SC34 reporting the progress at the working group that is trying to fix the OpenXML, and it’s impressive and surreal what one may find in those documents.
The document N1101/N1168 contains for example, several items in which they recognize that there are decisions made in the BRM (BRM resolutions) […]

To celebrate the DocumentFreedom Day (DFD) tomorrow, 4Linux and ODF Alliance Chapter Brazil will live broadcast tomorrow at 7 pm (GMT -3) a talk show with me (Jomar Silva), Luiz Maluf (Sum Microsystems) and Marcelo Marques (4Linux and HackerTeen).
During one our, we’ll answer all questions about ODF send to boteconet AT 4Linux.com.br (you can send […]

I usually don’t blog about ODF applications, but decided to write this post to help people that are angry with OpenOffice, because it mess with the text in slides.
The main symptom of the problem is to have the text of the slides unformatted, usually being many times larger than the area of the slide and […]

After spending months discussing a serious unresolved problem with my broadband service provider (NET)  and have been summarily ignored by the company, I decided to place a formal complain at ANATEL (the agency that regulate all telecommunications services in Brazil),  as I did in the past.
On ANATEL’s website, I discovered that their complaints system was […]

I’d prepared myself to write a post today about yesterday’s approval of the first Committee Draft of ODF 1.2, but Rob Weir wrote a so well written text on his blog that I think that it is a better idea to gently invite yourselves to read it there
The text explains what it means to […]

Now it’s official !
A few minutes ago I received an email from a Venezuelan friend, telling me that it has been published in the Official Gazette of Venezuela (No 39.109  of 29 January 2009) a decree defining the ODF as the official and mandatory format for editable to be used by all public institutions in […]

I announced a few hours ago, on my presentation about ODF at Campus Party that on last week, the committee that develops ODF (OASIS ODF TC) has approved a proposal presented by me and Bob Jolliffe (Government of South Africa) regarding digital signatures support on ODF 1.2.
The use of XMLDSig for digital signatures in ODF […]

Learned in 2008 that the more I pray, more ghosts appears to me and to begin 2009 with the left foot, I received an ISO e-mail on last week, through Brazilian NB, inviting Brazil to join the international effort to “collect OpenXML technical and editorial errors”.For those who don’t know, I’ll summarize the OpenXML […]

I received a lot of messages from many people in recent days with comments or asking my opinion about the announcement made last week, that Microsoft was publishing the “technical details” of their ODF implementation. In first place, I would like to warn everyone that the extensive document published is nothing more than the ODF […]