Well, first sorry for the long hiatus, I was very busy with the Software Freedom Day in Ha Noi and have been sick since then.
My readership knows what happened september 2nd 2007, when Microsoft tried to fast-track its OOXML that would provide a second ISO standard in addition of ISO/IEC 26300 for office document after [...]
I often complain about the lack of understanding of Vietnamese official about IPR, trademark, Free and Open Source Software or how-to collaborate through code sharing. I was very glad to see the OpenLab in Ho Chi Minh City organizing a video conference with Mark Shuttleworth last friday. We had the pleasure to talk [...]
There is already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF): a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to industry, government and citizens;
There is no provable implementation of the OOXML specification: Microsoft Office 2007 produces a special version of OOXML, not a file format which complies with the OOXML specification;
There is missing information from [...]
Viet Nam, although showing sign of intense growth, is still a poor country. Some place are even poorer, so local government may authorize scrap salvaging to alleviate poverty. This happened recently when Ba Ria-Vung Tau government had last year permitted soldiers and fishermen to
salvage unused undersea cables laid before 1975 to sell as scrap. Result [...]
A reaction to the recent move from the Vietnamese Government to buy 300,000 licence of Microsoft softwares.
Microsoft cuts huge deals with Governement agencies and Microsoft, Vietnam sign human resource pact.
The little short story is that the vietnamese governement officially release the story that it will buy 300,000 licences of Windows and Microsoft Office. Plus some [...]
In fact the body of the article tells us that :
Open source software could create a more favourable working environment for Vietnamese institutes and enterprises by eliminating hefty fees needed to buy copyrighted material, said a senior official.
Then the author continue :
Open source software is designed without copyrights or intellectual property protection to be [...]
If you are not already aware of it, it looks like Microsoft legal legions have launch the final onslaught on Free and Open Software by claiming that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. CNN is reporting it and the whole blogosphere along with all [...]
In Viet Nam it is become increasingly difficult to know who is doing what in the Free Software field :
Who can solve this specific apache problem. ?
Who has managed to make X-unikey work properly ?
Who is doing advocacy ?
Who can’t fix my postfix problems ?
Who wrote the article phần má»m nguồn mở on wikipedia ?
Where [...]
The Free Software Foundation has released a paper detailing the five actions major hardware manufacturers can take to foster a mutually beneficial relationship with the free software community: support free software drivers, end the “Microsoft Taxâ€, remove proprietary BIOS locks, support a free BIOS, and reject Digital Restrictions Management (DRM).
And it is not completely theoretical, [...]
Yes, you correctly read enhance reduced functionality, is what you will get by running a pirated Vista. Don’t tell me how they ended up with such a concept “enhance reduced functionality” but it come directly from the MS website :
Windows Vista will have a reduced functionality mode but one that is enhanced.
That will affect [...]
