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ODF Toolkit Announced
Sweetshark writes "IBM and Sun joined at the 2008 OpenOffice.org conference in Beijing to announce the ODF Toolkit Union. The ODF Toolkit project will be independent of the development at OpenOffice.org, and will operate under the liberal Apache license. It goes from small tools that simplify using ODF in the software development process to large ODF Java and .NET libraries that can be used within other projects. 'The future of accessing and distributing software is here today,' said Michael Bemmer, senior director of Collaboration Engineering at Sun. 'It is no longer an acceptable business practice to have silos of office document data stored in proprietary formats. The industry has moved forward and is replacing the silos with business content, such as on-premise business applications, software solutions offered over the Internet and applications supported by mobile devices that are critical in Service Oriented Architectures.' Will this help ODF to make inroads in the business world after the successes on the desktops of users at home?"
You know, I really don't care about the ODF toolkit. What I do care about is my fellow Slahsdotters. I love all of you, man. We stand together. Fuck fame, fortune, and a regular sex life. We have computers damn it! And that's all we need. Please look into the bottom of your hearts and mod me appropriately. I thank you for your time, kind moderator.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?