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OpenDocument Foundation To Drop ODF

Posted by kdawson on from the microsoft-cheering-from-the-sidelines dept.

poet sends us to Computerworld for a story on the intention of the OpenDocument Foundation to drop support for Open Document Format, OASIS and ISO standards not withstanding, in favor of the Compound Documents Format being promoted by the W3C. The foundation's director of business affairs, Sam Hiser, dropped this bomb in a blog posting a couple of weeks ago. Hiser believes CDF has a better shot at compatibility with Microsoft's OOXML, and says that the foundation has been disappointed with the direction of ODF over the last year.

3 of 325 comments (clear)

  1. Major Faux Pas by klui · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Flip-flopping like this won't help ODF/CDF's cause. Better compatibility with OOXML? Why not say ODF will give up and sell itself to OOXML? Someone at ODF got a big chunk of change or something? If CDF is compelling, why not fold CDF into ODF instead? Sorry for all these questions.

  2. Bored with this tech.. move on.. by LingNoi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1) Create new Technology
    2) Hype the Tech to oblivion
    3) Get bored and pronounce it dead
    4) ....
    5) PROFIT!!

    List of the currently deceased off the top of my head..
    Java, ODF, SecondLife, Linux, Web 2.0

  3. I can understand some FOSS advocates... by jsight · · Score: 0, Redundant

    wanting a complete implementation of MS office xml. But what is the deal with this? Trying to split the open document format? ODF is far from perfect, but a couple of morons trying to split it is the last thing it needs.

    These people need to go away.

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    Throw the bums out!