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12.09.07

OpenDocument and BoycottNovell in Video

Posted in GNOME, Videos, OpenDocument, Europe, SUN, Open XML at 1:33 am by Roy Schestowitz

YouTube contains a new video from Spain Portugal where an explanation about OpenDocument format is given. The video contains bits in Spanish Portuguese and in English.

It was pleasant to find our site mentioned in the new weekly video from Linux.com. Here isan on-page embedment of it.

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2 Comments »

  1. Alberto Barrionuevo (FFII) said,

    December 9, 2007 at 2:17 pm

    Note: The video about OpenDocument was in Portugal and in Portuguese, not Spain.

  2. Roy Schestowitz said,

    December 9, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    Alberto,

    Yeah, I wasn’t sure about that and I made a bit of a gamble. I’ll correct the text. :-)

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