Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Steven Garrity has a 3 parts article about open formats and that catch-22 situation:

• Part 1: Music
• Part 2: Instant Messenging
• Part 3: office formats

Really interesting reading if you ask yourself some questions about Ogg, Jabber or why one shouldn't use MS Office formats.

Update: dom has posted corrections of the office formats article (Part 3). I agree with his corrections, in fact I knew about them, I just thought that the original article with presenting things good enough. So for accuracy, I also link to dom's.

Anyone knows about an Open Source C library for reading XMP Metadata ?

I know that the fabulous Image::ExifTool does it, but it is Perl5. I can't find anything, and Google brings nothing.

Update: A missed that Adobe XMP SDK code is open source as state the license

• Install Mozilla Sunbird. Create you calendar data.
• Realize that since you use the Mozilla Application Suite, you'd better install the Sunbird plugin. Do so.
• Voilà, your data are not there.

Why is that ? Because despite being the same project, they suffer from NIH by not putting the data in the same location.