Open Document Format Approved

An anonymous reader writes "The OASIS Group announces that the third Committee Draft [PDF] of the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0 Specification has been approved as an OASIS Standard. The submission of the approved standard can be found at here.
The OpenDocument format is intended to provide an open alternative to proprietary document formats including the popular DOC, XLS, and PPT formats used by Microsoft Office. Organizations and individuals that store their data in an open format avoid being locked in to a single software vendor, leaving them free to switch software if their current vendor goes out of business or changes their software or licensing terms to something less favorable."

Comments

Ironic

[R.D.Olivaw]

Open Document Format approved! Read all about it!*

*Acrobat reader required

Re:Ironic

[Doyle]

And one can't expect it to be in the format which the document specifies... it just got approved after all.

Yes we can, dammit!

Re:Ironic

[ikkonoishi]

Print out the PDF and glue it to the screen?

Re:Hardware?

[Timo_UK]

Only if you chisel it in stone...

A glimpse into the further future

[makomk]

CUSTOMER: Our copies of Microsoft Office don't work on any new PCs. Help!

MICROSOFT: Tough. Shell out $500 per PC per month, or lose the ability to read your documents.

CUSTOMER: Somebody help us!!!

OPENOFFICE (silence - died years ago due to lack of interest)

Re:A glimpse into the further future

[Infinityis]

CUSTOMER: Hey, what's this I found? It's some old unmaintained code for writing office documents...

MICROSOFT: All your base are belong to us!

CUSTOMER: No, no...I remember this, it worked good. Remember that time Netscape looked all dead but then came back to life as Firefox/Mozilla? Maybe we could do the same with this here office thingy...

MICROSOFT: All your base are belong to us!

CUSTOMER: Hey guys, check this out, we don't have to use that Microsoft stuff anymore...

MICROSOFT: All your.... (searching)... (searching)... Base not found. To locate base yourself, click "Browse"

Re:What about Bill

[geirt]

>Imagine MS giving support for an open source project that they don't even own.

Imagine MS giving support.

The trick to adoptment!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, just let .doc be the official extension of the new open format!
Think about it!

Re:XSLT?

[Lehk228]

i thought the MS "xml" document format was something along the lines of

<xml>
<msWord>
<author>Bill Gates</author>
<uue-doc>dfndslfuhrdsifdshfkldsfue sfjdlkfuc436^%$& %$5</uue-doc>
</msWord>
</xml>

Re:Do Not Underestimate this....

[Lehk228]

MWAHAHA the ultimate plan, convert India to OpenOffice.org and firefox then the only available tech support will be fro free software and microsoft will be DOOMED

Re:Yup, and you know what?

[Jussi K. Kojootti]

Yeah just like bitching about web standards is foolish and creating browsers that support web standards is stupid. Everyone will just keep using IE and web designers will design pages for IE.

Changing the world is not possible, don't even think about it.

Re:What about Bill

[DickBreath]

>>Sponsor Members [of OASIS] include... *drumroll*: Microsoft
>That only means that they wanted to influence the process.

I think you misspelled interfere. (Or perhaps you meant subvert, sabatoge or stall?)