How the impact of the unbundling of NZ Telecom is expected to proceed. The
drop in share prices shows how much of an obscene profit was being made:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/E239C7ABD2879622CC257163006387A5?OpenDocument
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3656669a10,00.html
The OpenDocument foundation announces that it has a well-tested plugin for Microsoft Word
that will import and export OpenDocument ODF files, including Accessibility addons:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060504015438308
What can we expect from Microsoft in the future? Not very much, it
seems, if John Dvorak is to be believed:
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B629B28CD-9E0E-48CA-8E8B-243AA6E2CB92%7D&dist=lycos&siteid=lycos
The OpenDocument specification has now passed the voting stage of
ISO/IEC approval as a standard. It's all done bar the paperwork:
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060503080915835
The Debian Project prepares for its next release of it's Linux
distribution, codenamed "Etch":
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Debian_preps_for_December_code_release/0,2000061733,39254887,00.htm
And finally. A celebratory film commemorating one Dr Albert Hofman's 100th birthday and his
accidental discovery of the effects of lysergic acid derivatives, set to Pink Floyd:
http://www.normal-design.com/bicycle-ride.htm
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.