Journal Journal: Run "ads by Google"? Get taxed for more than you earned

Journal by LWGLIN on Sunday December 16, 2007 @09:25AM

Antwerp Calling writes (about me): Bruno Lowagie, a Belgian non-profit blogger writing free open-source software [iText], got this year's most unusual Christmas gift: a letter from the Belgian tax authority informing him that putting "ads by Google" on his local blog turned him into an overnight "independent e

Comment Re:PDF is not a document format (Score 1) 2

by LWGLIN on Sunday December 16, 2007 @05:04AM (#21715396) Attached to: SUN releases PDF Renderer

That's very well said! I'm referring to PDF as a Document Format because that's what PDF originally stands for: Portable Document Format. It all depends on your point of view. From where I stand, PDF is a Document Format; but from the general point of view, your remark is more accurate.

Journal Journal: SUN releases PDF Renderer 2

Journal by LWGLIN on Saturday December 15, 2007 @06:09AM

As announced on Joshua Marinacci's blog, SUN released a 100% Java PDF renderer and viewer. Combined with a PDF generation tool such as iText, Java developers no longer have reasons not to use PDF as the ultimate document format.

Journal Journal: Google convicted by Belgian Court

Journal by LWGLIN on Monday September 18, 2006 @03:52AM

A Belgian court has ruled that Google has violated the law on copyright and ancillary rights (1991) and the law on data bases (1998). The court order dates from September 5, but was made public yesterday. All text, images and other material owned by the French- and German-speaking newspaper publishers that are a member of the Copiepress group

Journal Journal: Google - Adobe Web Search Deal

Journal by LWGLIN on Friday June 23, 2006 @05:39AM

iTWire reports: Google has paid big money to get its search Window as the default in Firefox, now it has made a deal with Adobe to distribute the Google toolbar with Shockwave (inherited from MacroMedia).

Journal Journal: Attention Win98 users

Journal by LWGLIN on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @04:28AM

I was reading technocrat.net when I noticed a reference to an article titled Computers running Windows 98 best unhooked from Internet. Seems like MS will be dropping support for Win98, 98se and ME on July 11. At technocrat they think this is Good news for Linux.

Journal Journal: JAX Innovation Award Nominees

Journal by LWGLIN on Thursday May 04, 2006 @08:31AM

Yesterday Eclipse Magazin published the nominees for the JAX Award at EAKon2006:

Journal Journal: JAX Innovation Award 2006

Journal by LWGLIN on Monday April 24, 2006 @08:54AM

Will Spring win the JAX Award 2006? I have entered my own product because it's fun to have an Award that is given to European projects only, but I don't think any of the other candidates has a chance at beating Spring...