Weir: Where did the time go? [LWN.net]

Weir: Where did the time go?

Posted Mar 14, 2012 18:55 UTC (Wed) by Ed_L. (guest, #24287)
In reply to: Weir: Where did the time go? by Zizzle
Parent article: Weir: Where did the time go?

You may see Rob Weir as a corporate shill. And yes, he is indeed an employee of IBM. From his blog:

I am also a member of the American Philatelic Society, the United States Chess Federation, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the American Daffodil Society, the American Homebrewers Association, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the ACM, the OASIS ODF TC (Chair), the OASIS ODF Adoption TC, the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC, INCITS V1, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34, and a trained SkyWarn weather spotter. I play trombone, bagpipes, didgeridoo and ukulele rather poorly, and recorder rather well. Whether or nor I sing is as yet an unresolved question...

Please note Rob's OASIS ODF participation and (may I add) tireless leadership in the ODF/OOXML wars, a community contribution by both Rob and IBM not all of us have yet forgotten.

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Weir: Where did the time go?

Posted Mar 14, 2012 19:59 UTC (Wed) by oever (subscriber, #987) [Link]

Having both LibreOffice and the Apache Office is a boon in my opinion. The ODF specification is very important in allowing the user to open en edit their documents in different programs. The work of the ODF TC which Rob chair is very important in this regard.

Public strife generates clicks, but a lot of cooperation between the offices is fruitful. Having choice is a nice result.

Weir: Where did the time go?

Posted Mar 15, 2012 6:31 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

bagpipe player! BAGPIPE PLAYER!

If there is one thing worse than being accused of being a corporate shill... its being a self-professed bagpipe player.

And there is only one thing worse than being a bagpipe player. I guy who curls wearing traditional bagpipe playing clothing.

-jef"No i don't care that the Scottish actually invented curling. I never ever...ever...want to see a man wearing a traditional kilt prepping to throw a curling stone again. So many bad angles and things moving around unrestrained"spaleta

Bagpipes!

Posted Mar 15, 2012 8:52 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463) [Link]

WTF is "traditional bagpipe playing clothing" supposed to be? An afghan Pakul? Galician Slops? Maroccan Jelabah? Or a medieval "Cotte"?
http://www4.uwm.edu/celtic/ekeltoi/volumes/vol6/6_18/imag...

Just in case you haven't heard of it, the bagpipe happened to be played from north africa to scandinavia, from portugal to asia. They came probably from the middle east, and only arrived in england in the 14th century, when the rest of europe was already happily bagpiping. Today, the biggest producer of bagpipes is - Pakistan!

(Note for the record, so you can't accuse me of being a bagpipe-shill on grounds of suspicion of being a bagpipe-player: I don't play bagpipes. But I play shawm and bombard. Search for them up on youtube if you don't know how these sound. Most people are horrified ;))

Bagpipes!

Posted Mar 15, 2012 11:41 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

And also incidentally there is no such thing as »the bagpipe«. It is about as well-defined a concept as »the car«.

(PS. I'm also not a bagpipe player. I agree that if bagpipes aren't your cup of tea, you will definitely want to give bombards, which are essentially bagpipes without the bag or drones and optimised for ear-splittingness, a wide berth. A couple of kilometers should do it.)