Monthly Archives: April 2008

links for 2008-04-28

CEFRIEL – 06/05/2008 – Challenges for ‘open’ in next 12 months – CEFRIEL Bob Sutor, IBM, talks to CEFRIEL, Milano. My guess he will talk a lot about Open Standards and the OOXML fiasco. Marking the date in the calendar, … Continue reading

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links for 2008-04-24

SugarForge: funambol-sugarcrm-v6.0.3-release This version has even more error trapping, after another different exception was reported. Please use this in preference to v6.0.2. It will provide better tracing in the event of error. (tags: funambol sugarcrm connector release) SDK showdown: iPhone … Continue reading

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Ozzie talks about FLOSS and FLOSS advocates talk back

Lots of talking about Microsoft lately.’  As I expected, Ray Ozzie’s public appearances are increasing with declarations of love for the magic word interoperability and with a new, more open, attitude.’  I believe it’s true that “Microsoft fundamentally, as a … Continue reading

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links for 2008-04-17

Funambol Community Showcase #3: Google Android plug-in The Funambol Android plug-in is an Android appliation for Google’s mobile phone platform. Read the description of the work contributed by Funambol community member Carlo Codega. (tags: funambol android syncml sync showcase) Milking … Continue reading

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Rainman, the day of the election

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links for 2008-04-14

More feedback about Google and AGPL The AGPL is a license that Google clearly dislikes for its own proprietary reasons — they have a vested corporate interest in impeding its popularity. (tags: google gpl opensource agplv3 affero) Vota per il … Continue reading

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Buy, sell, regret. A lesson from a good professor

My professor of International Economics, Fabio Sdogati, is quite a character: he has a very effective teaching style and I really like to go to his lessons. Last night’s lesson was about exchange rates policies. He was showing a graph … Continue reading

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Iniziativa di Assoli: vota per il software libero!

Non ho mai seguito così poco come quest’anno le diatribe politiche italiche. Paradossalmente ne so più dei programmi di Obama, Clinton e McCain che di Veltroni, Berlusconi e compagnia cantante. Segnalo comunque l’iniziativa dell’Associazione Software Libero per contare quanti elettori … Continue reading

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OOXML: free software is back to square one

We’re back to square one, 1 ISO standard on each side of the barricade since Microsoft managed to convince the ISO that its proprietary standard, OOXML’  deserves the approved stamp. For all the money Google and IBM have thrown trying … Continue reading

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New UI from Funambol to iPhone

Only real hackers consider improving what everybody else thinks is already optimal. At Funambol we like to do just that and we decided to improve the iPhone user interface: Funambol, the company that is known for putting the “fun” back … Continue reading

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