mano a mano

Old Spice is taking a new direction with its latest campaign, by featuring multiple spokesmen — none of which are Isaiah Mustafa.

The effort, promoting the Red Zone Swagger sub-brand, however, does not mean that Mustafa will no longer star in ads for the brand, says a rep.

“We will still work with Isaiah,” says Mike Norton.

Alex’s Blog: "...Michael Tiemann and he have engaged in what is superficially a bit of “Is not!” “Is too!“.

Looking a bit deeper, though, it’s not really the pragmatics vs. the Stallmanites, even though that’s how Asay frames it."

Linux Journal: "The many helpful comments to that post give some indication of the scale of the response, but that overlooks the extraordinary emails I received from others, packed with useful information, which clearly represented many hours' work.

To everyone, I'd like to express my thanks. The bad news is that the meeting is not going to take place after all."

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an impending meeting with Microsoft to discuss some of its actions during the standardisation process of OOXML at the ISO.

I asked Linux Journal readers for some help in preparing for this, and you responded with a generosity entirely in keeping with the spirit of free software.

Linux Journal: "Next week, I'm taking part in a debate with a Microsoft representative about the passage of the OOXML file format through the ISO process last year.

Since said Microsoftie can draw on the not inconsiderable resources of his organisation to provide him with a little back-up, I thought I'd try to even the odds by putting out a call for help to the unmatched resource that is the Linux Journal community."

Next week, I'm taking part in a debate with a Microsoft representative about the passage of the OOXML file format through the ISO process last year.

Since said Microsoftie can draw on the not inconsiderable resources of his organisation to provide him with a little back-up, I thought I'd try to even the odds by putting out a call for help to the unmatched resource that is the Linux Journal community.

Here's the background to the meeting, and the kind of info I hope people might be able to provide.