TurboLinux Agrees to Support OpenXML

CNN Money has a story about Turbolinux agreeing to support Micro$oft's
OpenXML document format
(http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM04009072007-1.htm)
for the Asian market. M$ needs a backdoor into the Asian market and
TurboLinux may be key to them establishing an acceptance by porting
OpenXML translations to Asian languages.

M$ is also gaining headway into having it recognized as an "open"
standard for documents. I enclosed the word "open" since Open XML is
to a great degree as open only to the point M$ wants it to be. Meaning
its still proprietary software in essence and not as open as Open
Source. M$ only opens mechanisms for other software to translate to
and from it Open XML MS-Office formats. Nothing more.

Lenovo's Selling Them Again!!!

Goes to tell you... Linux is making sense to many businessmen who want
to do business in Asia. Nice article written up about Lenovo's
decision to offer Linux on one of it's high-end laptop lines:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8001895768.html

M$ Threatened with GPLv3?

I would love to see how this will eventually shake out... Microsoft: 'Your Puny GPLv3 Can't Hold Us!'

It would be sweet revenge if indeed Microsoft led itself into a legal quagmire by entering into those deals with Novell, Xandros and Linspire.

The Kernel Goes Green

I dream of a day when I would be able to do all the computing I want
and still help reduce the electricity I consume. A good sample of
consumer level energy-saving PC would be the Zobu PC
(http://www.zonbu.com/home/). And with the advent of energy-saving
hardware, the software eventually followed. The Linux kernel is going
the opposite of the behemoth we know as Micro$oft. Linux's maintainers
are making the kernel go green for practical and environmental reason
(http://news.com.com/Linux+coders+tackle+power+efficiency/2100-1007_3-6192865.html).
It's a win-win, if you asked me. A win for the consumer and a win for
the environment.

AvantGo on My Treo650

I've started using AvantGo
(http://my.avantgo.com/home/index.html?learn_more=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.avantgo.com%2Ffrontdoor%2Findex.html)
to download webpages ("news channels" in AvantGo lingo) to my Treo.
Its a great convenience to be able to sync your Treo of your PC and
read the pages without having to be tethered to the internet. Useful
when travelling in areas without a decent wireless signal. Or when
you're just trying to save on data charges -- like me! I hate Smart's
metered GPRS (http://www.smart.com.ph/SMART/Value+Added+Services/Data/AV_Text_Gprs.htm).
The only downside was the darn app ate up a huge chunk of my phone's
internal memory. I might just have to find something lighter.
Suggestions, anyone?