Stop Software Patents – Europe (again !!!!)

October 28, 2008 in FLOSS, GNU/Linux
Tags: europe, FLOSS, free software, gpl, opensource, petition

Just a quick post to spotlight this initiative: http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu
If you’re curious on why a renewal of such kind of petition is needed here in Europe – probably after having signed the first and seen it’s success – you can visit THIS LINK (in english) to know better what’s going on.
And oh, spread the word [...]

[petition] bring back firewire to macbook

October 27, 2008 in Apple, hardware, macbook
Tags: Apple, firewire, macbook, petition

Everyone that follow the tech news, and the Apple ones in particular, have surely heard the voices of unsatisfaction on the firewire technology removal from their mainstream family of notebooks, the unibody ’s MacBook.
Well, you too saw it coming? A petition has been organized to ask Apple to bring back the Firewire (at least) [...]

we say NO to OOXML !

January 5, 2008 in software
Tags: OOXML, opensource, petition

Today I’ve joined the 75613 (and counting) people petion to ask the national members of ISO to vote “NO” in the ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML or OOXML format) for the following reasons:

There is already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF): a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to industry, [...]