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- KungFuJesus, on 11/15/2007, -1/+64This organization had absolutely _nothing_ to do with OpenDocument Format. The real group that actually is involved with ODF is the ODF Alliance.
http://www.odfalliance.org/ - schestowitz, on 11/15/2007, -3/+48They knew months ago that the shop was close, so they decided to pull a publicity stunt to grab media attention. The OpenDocument Foundation is an independent group of 3 people. It's not about OpenDocument format. People are confused by the name.
- mvent2, on 11/15/2007, -1/+35These are just 3 attention whores in a garage. Not OASIS. They were riding on the name of a successful Microsoft alternative to get publicity for themselves.
- drewskyjones, on 11/15/2007, -2/+19Ironic...actually beyond ironic, whatever that's called.
- Smight, on 11/15/2007, -0/+15So you're saying that if I start some kind of "Open Document Federation" I can get attention?
hmmmmmmmm - mvent2, on 11/15/2007, -2/+13It means absolutely nothing. This "foundation" was a sham from the start.
- Smight, on 11/15/2007, -1/+7Poetic?
- dezmd, on 11/15/2007, -2/+8Are you off your ***** rocker? Microsoft is the king of ignoring flaws in an effort to make (already bumped up) deadlines of software relases. If anything, the Open Source community mentality is more along the lines of 'make it work good, then we can make it pretty... maybe'.
Cheers. - inactive, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5If by publicity stunt you mean HURT the name of the OpenDocument format then yes.
- merwin, on 11/15/2007, -1/+6Couldn't it be a poetic tragedy though?
- masterthiefster, on 11/16/2007, -1/+3The Greeks didn't have punctuation as we know it today, so... no.
- bubba9999, on 11/16/2007, -1/+3Wow - the cluelessness of your comment startled me.
- z0mbie2099, on 11/17/2007, -0/+2I smell Microsoft behind the scenes of this confusion.
- Phlosten, on 11/16/2007, -0/+2ODF doesn't lack compatibility with MS Office, it's the other way around. Microsoft could implement ODF support very easily but they choose not to because they are monopolistic pigs. I think MS Office is a great product, however I choose not to use it because of it's greatest flaw, it doesn't have a good openly accessible document format. My data has to be always accessible to me, using MS Office unfortunately doesn't guarantee this.
- masterthiefster, on 11/16/2007, -0/+2Microsoft won't implement a proper open format into Word any time soon. And why should they? By sticking with the (somewhat) proprietary .doc format they ensure their own market dominance. MS has drafted an XML document specification called docx but no other software properly supports it yet, and even Office itself doesn't fully support all features of the specification.
- Atomic1fire, on 11/16/2007, -0/+1Its not that it isnt open
its that microsoft wont support it
because it wants a market dominence
once it supports a format rivaling its own its office microsofts power goes down the toilet - mr.gates, on 11/15/2007, -2/+3Well lets just not start talking about tragic poetry Socrates spent his life saying it was crap.
- db113456, on 11/15/2007, -4/+4http://opendocumentfellowship.com/
A note here: URGENT
(27 Oct 2007) The Fellowship's .org domain name is now pointing to a cybersquatter's site. Please ...
The other sites referenced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
look ok. The article is not entirely significant. - insllvn, on 11/15/2007, -3/+3Did Socrates ever say anything about punctuation?
- Stonekeeper, on 11/15/2007, -4/+3good.
- wolferz, on 11/15/2007, -4/+2poetic if it's a victory, tragic if its a loss.
- Amazetbm, on 11/15/2007, -5/+1Good.
- baalzebub, on 11/15/2007, -6/+1i guess we can expect an update to OpenOffice soon with the new file format, heh, not like it makes much difference to me anyway since my accounting software is written in Java and saves the file formats in XML...
i prefer LaTeX for documents anyway... - inactive, on 11/15/2007, -6/+0R.i.P. ?
- Darksaber11, on 11/15/2007, -7/+1Look people, ODF sucks, if for no other reason (and I'm not saying there aren't other reasons) than it's lack of compatibility with MS Office. If there is to be a true "Open Format" for office documents it needs to be supported by the major office suits. It's that simple.
- inactive, on 11/15/2007, -13/+4What does this mean for OpenOffice? Are they going to switch to supporting only Microsoft Word format? :)
- wolferz, on 11/15/2007, -17/+6FTA: "it's likely that Microsoft's format will win by default, simply because it's tied to the most popular office software."
And also because Microsoft's users and supporters don't shun it when MS points out flaws in it's current technologies and makes an effort to improve. That's purely an Open Source Community mentality: Ideology before common sense. - Jeffler, on 11/15/2007, -17/+1NEW BREAKING NEWS - ELECTION CAMPAIGNERS STOP CAMPAIGNING AFTER LOSING ELECTION
No offense, but shouldn't this be obvious?
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