Posted on July 28, 2011 by Simon Phipps
I am on the Programme Committee for the upcoming LibreOffice Conference in Paris, and as a consequence I get to see the stream of paper submissions. There have already been a lot of diverse submissions and it’s already clear it will be a very interesting conference, but there is still room for more. Make sure you get your submission in before the August 8th deadline.
Of course, you can also contribute as a delegate. Registration is free and you can do it easily now. I suggest registering early as space is going to be at a premium.
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Posted on July 27, 2011 by Simon Phipps
Yesterday saw the launch of the Open Cloud Initiative here at OSCON in Portland. It has the potential to steer the evolution of cloud computing just as the Open Source Initiative did. With every cloud provider today either using centralised service or proprietary software as a way to lock in customers, this is extremely timely.
You can read more about this in my article on ComputerWorldUK.
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Posted on July 26, 2011 by Simon Phipps
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The Internet never forgets.
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A more detailed article explaining the problem VLC is having with companies using not just the code (which they are free to do) but also the reputation of an open source project as part of dubious business practices. This is a massive problem for the most famous open source brands, and I am especially worried that there’s no-one protecting OpenOffice.org end-user from these sorts of scams at present or, as far as I can tell, any time in the near future.
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The arrangement to prop up SUSE continues.
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A patent application published by the USPTO last Thursday reveals that Microsoft has been researching, since before December 2009, how to redirect VoIP calls to intercept devices and law enforcement agents. The method disclosed by the patent application is devious—subverting routing protocols so that packets sent by any person tagged by a monitoring request will be routed through a recording agent.”
Guessing this is not just a speculative filing. It covers all uses of VoIP including in-game and via-IM.
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Posted on July 25, 2011 by Simon Phipps
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Posted on July 22, 2011 by Simon Phipps
A delightfully clear afternoon flying across Nevada to San Francisco allowed me to take some splendid photographs. Check out especially the shot of Half Dome and the colours of the salt pans in San Francisco Bay.
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Posted on July 21, 2011 by Simon Phipps
Flying from Chicago to San Francisco today I was struck by the fact that there were bar charts, pie charts and many more visible everywhere.
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Posted on July 20, 2011 by Simon Phipps
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Big-risk strategy in play here. Let’s hope their plan is visionary and strong, as there’s no doubt that the technology industry needs the disruption.
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The BBC have an Android app that gathers signal strength data the whole time. I can’t think of anyone else I would trust to give me an app like this! Hope the results have enough richness to become a useful input to the regulatory debate.
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The week after JavaOne if I’m not mistaken.
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Posted on July 19, 2011 by Simon Phipps
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These sorts of scams were a serious problem that we spent a great deal of thought addressing in connection with OpenOffice.org. I am concerned there may be no-one dealing with them right now (or, indeed, in the future…)
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Interesting analysis of the Google Plus terms of service.
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Posted on July 18, 2011 by Simon Phipps
Will you be in Portland (the one in Oregon in the USA) next week? ForgeRock would love to meet you during OSCON. Join us at Kells at 6pm on Thursday July 28th (it’s an easy and free Max ride from the Convention Center and you can easily make it back for the State of the Onion if you need to). Come to our session on Thursday morning to collect a wrist band for unlimited free drinks!
In case you’re not familiar with ForgeRock, we’re a rapidly-growing startup that’s taking a radical software-freedom-first approach to creating an identity-oriented application platform – SAML, LDAP, provisioning, single-sign-on and much more. The software we’re developing is already mature and is already in use at around 50 of the worlds most interesting high-scale technologically aggressive companies. At OSCON I’ll be joined by colleagues to explain our philosophy and our software.
Afterwards, maybe some Norwegian music is in order? One of my favourite Norwegian musicians, Thomas Dybdahl, is playing the Doug Fir Lounge at 9pm.
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Posted on July 15, 2011 by Simon Phipps
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The key lesson from prohibition, ignored by policy hawks, is that “it is cultural acceptance of legal norms, not fear of punishment, that makes a free society a law-abiding one”.
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Interesting screen-sharing service; pity there’s no Linux support.
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When the War On Drugs crew read this, they will hopefully try to make burgers illegal and trigger the revolution.
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