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ODF Alliance, Who, What, Where (and Why?)
Andy Updegrove writes "On Friday, the new ODF Alliance was launched with much fanfare to 'educate government' about the OpenDocument Format. A flurry of brief news articles appeared the same day, based on pre-launch interviews (as well as an Op/Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal by Sun's Scott McNealy), but they didn't include much information. So what's it all about, why was it formed, and will it be likely to succeed? Given that the 36 members include only one government unit (the ICT department for Vienna), the answer is clearly to establish a beachhead in the government market as a target of opportunity, and then to expand from there to meet the real goals of the members."
Can I mod this article flamebait ? My main personal annoyance with slashdot is that regardless of an article's subject, the comments are always filled with rabid open-source chest-thumpers. So I actually cringe when I see an article actually relating to open source. The articles are fine, I just wish the meganerd commenters that freak out about anything mainstream that *just works well without spending all afternoon in your mom's basement tweaking config files* would give it a rest sometimes.
My name is coaxeus, and I approve this message. In fact, I think it is awesome.
Let the market decide what files to use instead of forcing something on everyone