LXer: What's up at the OpenDocument Foundation?

LXer · 11-08-2007, 06:20 AM

Published at LXer:

The OpenDocument Foundation, founded five years ago by Gary Edwards, Sam Hiser, and Paul "Buck" Martin (marbux) with the express purpose of representing the OpenDocument format in the "open standards process," has reversed course. It now supports the W3C's Compound Document Format instead of its namesake ODF. Yet why this change of course has occurred is something of a mystery.

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Hangdog42 · 11-08-2007, 07:30 AM

For those of you who have not run into this particular load of crapola before, the OpenDocument Foundation has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING (and by that I mean nada, zip, zilch, bupkis) to do with the ODF format. Nothing. Not a single bit.

Unfortunately the author of the linked article is clueless about this latest FUD extravaganza.