Archive for August, 2007


India votes “no” for OOXML

The war of OpenDoc Format (ODF) vs. Office Open XML (OOXML) has reached the Indian shores. India on Thursday gave Microsoft a thumbs-down in the war of standards for office documents. In a tense meeting at Delhi’s Manak Bhawan, the 21-member technical committee decided that India will vote a ‘no’ against Microsoft’s Open Office Extensible [...]

ELER - Everybody loves Eric Raymond

I stumbled across this site . Its a comic strip about The 3 gurus of FOSS/FSF (Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond and Linus Torvalds ) living together in the same apartment. Pretty funny and geeky.
Oh for those scraching your heads after reading those names. Wikipedia comes to your rescue.
Richard Stallman (rms) - FSF founder, Modern Gandhi
Eric [...]