Here’s something that shouldn’t happen.

User reads her email with a web-based email service, using Firefox.
User opens an MS Word document (something.doc) that someone sent her via email. OpenOffice opens it.
User changes document and saves it with a new filename (something_changed.doc). OpenOffice offers to save it next to the existing document, which Firefox put in /tmp, […]

I’ve done some more work on the debian Repository Analyzer that I mentioned before, which can help companies with license compliance by helping them to discover the licenses of their debian-based product’s software, and to navigate around the dependencies with that information.
Now it identifies some standard free-software and open-source licenses (such as GPL, LGPL, MIT, […]

Glom 1.2 is now out (see the announcement). It has a few new features and less bugs than the 1.0 branch. It should be available in Ubuntu Edgy soon. Glom 1.0 is apparently now available in Fedora 5 and 6, and I expect that to be updated to 1.2 soon.
For Glom 1.4, I hope […]

Canonical has generously offered to pay my way to the Ubuntu MountainView developers summit in November, to bring some extra points of view from the GNOME project.
I’ll arrive on Thursday evening, so I can spend Friday taking a look at San Francisco. I need to find a relatively cheap place to stay for 2 nights. […]

I have nothing against promotion, but overselling your product becomes a mistake pretty quickly. Statements such as “For the first time, ISVs are able to port their applications to Linux regardless of desktop environment.” will just ruin OSDL’s reputation and kill OSDL’s opportunity to help those ISVs. This isn’t a one-off mistake either.
Let’s make it […]

Openismus GmbH now 100% officially exists. All the steps are complete. It’s done. I win. Wikipedia can tell you what a German GmbH is, so ignore my summary if you want accuracy.
This is the easiest form of company to set up in Germany (or an OHG if you are selling physical products). Anything else (such […]

Daniel is back and blogging. I hope he’ll blog about setting up the scratchbox and Maemo development environment for the (secret until later) project he’s doing for Openismus.

I’ve been working on a Glom 1.1/1.2 branch recently, trying to quickly add some features in time to release a stable version for the Ubuntu Edgy release. The Glom 1.1.6 announcement has a list of what’s new. My favourite new features are:
Add Related Table
This is a time-saver that lets you quickly add a table and […]

Over the last few weeks I’ve been using spare hours to create a utility to help companies discover the licenses of their software and to help them decide what licenses they should use for software that uses open source dependencies, and what they should do with their sources and modifications. Assuming that they are using […]

Evolution is great
I love Evolution. I’ve used it for years for POP3 access and it has easily handled huge amounts of email and allowed me to quickly find information. I can not use a command-line email client to read my email. I am not like that. Years ago when I first started using Linux, […]