“[OpenDocument format is] our best chance to fight vendor lock-in associated with proprietary formats” says Daniel Carrera, an active openoffice.org developer. An article on the Groklaw points out many such advantages and also has a funny introduction!
Quiz: Complete the sentence,”OpenDocument is …”
(a) An open, XML-based file format.
(b) An open standard, supported by the OASIS
and […]
umm, you may call it the “Ubuntu effect”. The simplicity of ubuntu tempted me to switch to GNOME. That in no way means that I started not to like KDE or Qt. Qt is my always favorite GUI development API and KDE is always the best in terms of its power - but, GNOME is […]
Its been quite a few weekends since I used a weekend productively…
Last thursday when I was thinking of making a LiveCD that can be used to demonstrate a product, I felt dissapointed that neither Knoppix nor Morphix meets my requirement. Slax was close, but still failed to meet my requirements. Now its my […]
“India is ready for free software”
“Why free software is God’s gift for India”
… and many similar articles talk about how India could be benefited by the Free Software. I agree. There are many more articles that talk about Indians in the software industry, but its dissapointing to see that there are a very few articles […]
Imagine this:
I unpack a new system, plug it in to get a cool menu asking me to select a GNU/Linux distribution to install on my system, I select “Fedora Core 3 - KDE Workstation” and fedora gets installed on my system!
That is exactly what kept us busy in the last few days… Me, bunny and […]
A few months back, when watching the movie ‘The day after tomorrow’, I appreciated the creativity of the hollywood story writers… I thought, movie makers can go to any extent to make money. But now I change my mind - the nature can be more destructive than you imagine… it can give seemingly small […]