2008-12-08
"There latest storm in the teacup that is Swedish IT is caused by the national news agency TT decision to move from OpenOffice to Microsoft Office, mainly because ‘I (head of development) do not want to sit here wondering how I will connect OpenOffice with a hundred eleven other systems’. I believe ‘a hundred eleven’ is a long form for ‘a lot’.
This has in almost deterministic fashion caused people from both sides of the OSS-MS divide to wave their party flags."
2005-06-02
"The Oasis document format is really cool. My wife who is an architect (the original house building version, that is) - had created a presentation in PowerPoint with a lot of images, and the resulting file was 100M+.
I opened that file in OpenOffice2 and saved it as an .odt file. Then I unzipped it, bulk opened all images in the Gimp and changed their resolution. Finally I zipped it all up, an the presentation was now 8M and looking just the same."