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Star Trek creator was clueless about computers
“Star Trek creator didn’t have a clue of how computer actually work, and how to preserve digital documents, and the curators of his estate weren’t much better”: this should be the appropriate title for the story titled “How Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks”. (but see the important update below!)
Data, file formats and protocols as the first platform of network politics
This was the abstract of a talk I proposed for a Network Politics Conference in 2011. The talk wasn’t accepted, but I’d like to restart a conversation on this topic, so here it goes.
Why free trials of certain software programs are bad
(this is a reformatted/expanded version of a comment I made in November 2013 on the Libre Office mailing list)
Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of open office formats?
Twelve (TWELVE!!!) years ago I asked OpenOffice users “Are you advocating OO correctly”.
The correct way to use and advocate OO.o and the real reason to do it
(this is something I wrote in 2007. Everywhere you read “OO.o” you can (and should) replace it with “Apache OpenOffice or Libre Office”. See the bottom of the page for the origin and history of the text)
Many people, schools and small businesses use OO.o only because
The actual advantages of OpenDocument
(this is only the final part of something I wrote in 2007. Please do read the first part to understand where the text below comes from!)
A highly structured, metadata rich, application independent XML file format like OpenDocument can finally offer two huge advantages