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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.

5 of 325 comments (clear)

  1. Cue Ackbar by wiredlogic · · Score: -1, Troll

    "It's a trap!!!"

    --
    I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
  2. Hmm by evil9000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did Miguel of Gnome have anything to do with this?

  3. Re:someone wake me up please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is the internet, you're allowed to fucking swear you shithead.

  4. cry open source fags, cry! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i love to hear you bitches crying.

  5. Re:Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    don't even worry about these fools. they're too busy sucking dicks to know the wheres and whys of the issue. even when they know the what they're still confused as to why it's popular? there is no help for these gimps.