Thu January 1 1970

Thu January 1 1970 This is good news for the Free Software community and for a lot of others. A US court of appeals has decided that a number of patents on software and business practices are invalid. This decision has wiped out much of the patent portfolios of many big companies, though this does not mean that software cannot be patented in future. According to th ...

Thu January 1 1970

Thu January 1 1970

Thu January 1 1970 Finally, Malayalam has become one of the official languages supported by the K Development Environment, or KDE, one of the most popular desktops in GNU/Linux. The youth in the Swatantra Malayalam Computing (SMC) movement, which is becoming a registered society, have exceeded the minimum amount of translation needed for KDE to accept Malayalam as a ...

Thu January 1 1970 Though the results of the final voting are out, and it appears that Microsoft OOXML has been accepted as a standard by ISO. There is a two-month period when members can appeal against the decision, after which, if there are no appeals, the standard will be published. See http: ...

Thu January 1 1970 India has decided to vote against Microsoft's OOXML file format being accepted as an ISO standard in the meeting of the committee convened by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Out of 19 members of the BIS committee, five did not attend the meeting, five voted in favour of OOXML and the rest (eight) voted against.

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Thu January 1 1970 On May 9th evening, Charles told us that he would be leaving early morning next day, and that Quiliro would come and pick us up to go to the Catholic University. I found out that we were going to the IT Department of the University and was wondering what I should speak and how I should start. I thought that I could start by asking them how much mo ...

Thu January 1 1970 When you buy a male plug (often known as a 'top'), you don't normally have to worry about whether it will fit into the female plug (power outlet) you have at home. This is because both of them are manufactured according to standards that are followed by the industry. It is easy for anyone to design and construct a 'top' that fits into an ordinary ...

Thu January 1 1970 Recently, the Indian Express published a report where allegations were thrown at Kerala State IT Mission and SPACE and also at Arun, who currently works for KSITM. SPACE prepared a response to the report and it was published by the newspaper in the Letter to the Editor column. I personally believe that what t ...