OpenDocument Alliance to Fight Digital Dark Age

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday March 3, 2006 @03:32AM from the dragons-not-included dept.

OSS_ilation writes "A consortium of vendors and academic institutions -- including IBM, Sun Microsystems and the American Library Association -- has announced today that they are forming the OpenDocument Alliance as part of an effort to promote open file standards worldwide. The group will support the one truly open standard file format, OpenDocument, which is an XML-based file format used saving and exchanging editable office documents such as text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Sun's Simon Phipps said he believed ODF would allow future generations to view all of today's digital docs and prevent a digital Dark Age from occurring."

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The one truly open standard file format? by blowdart · 2006-03-03 03:37 · Score: 0, Redundant

So HTML doesn't exist? Or ANSI text files? Or unicode text files?
Sure, you can argue that they aren't as "rich" as Word, PDF et al, but they're standard and they're open.
What a stunning piece of FUD.
First Post by stry_cat · 2006-03-03 03:37 · Score: 0, Redundant

First Post...

But I actually want to say something useful. This is a good step, but until we can convicnce businesses that .doc is not something everyone uses, there is no hope for the ODF.

And with all this typing I'm probably not the first post anymore :(