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- OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'
- When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...
- Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's future
- OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's futureThere will never be a shortageof those who oppose freedom and support the rich and powerful. Will they be able to fool all the people, all the time?Never! There will always be at least one holdout........ Me!Good summation.This OD Foundation...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OSI, James Thurber, OpenDoc Format, OpenDocument Foundation, OpenDoc
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- OpenDocument Foundation folds; will Microsoft benefit?
- OpenDocument Foundation folds; will Microsoft benefit?Only freedom is the real loserWhile corporations whose goals are to exploit the public (using well-placed lobbying and bribes) will be winners.The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.C'est La VieCDF? But, but, butno one needs two standards, right? :-)congratulations to Mary....for...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Idealism, benefit, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, CDF
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
- ODF and differences of opinion
- ODF and differences of opinionNot really[i]It sounds like the OpenDocument Foundation thinks another XML document standard would better achieve their goals.[/i]Actually, it's much more of a political issue. They're after a file format that meets classical standards objectives such as testable conformance and round-trip integrity between conforming applications.According to...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, OpenDocument Format, OASIS, OpenDocument Foundation
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- IBM, Sun to create 'OpenDocument Foundation'?
- IBM, Sun to create 'OpenDocument Foundation'?Looks like Sun and IBM smell blood. They both have a lot to gain here.It is noteworthy that IBM is supporting a standard started by SUN, where SUN has a HUGE head start. They both realize that this could substantially help their respective office suites,...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), NETWORKING, W3C, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Foundation, private firm, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
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- Updegrove: Obama should give FOSS equal treatment
- ConsortiumInfo.org's Andy Updegrove urged President Obama to show more public support for free and open source software. In a blog featured on the site today, Updegrove said open source has made huge inroads in various government sectors, especially the Department of Defense, Â but it's high time that...
- Tags: Procurement, F/OSS, ConsortiumInfo.org, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- It's official: OOXML is a standard
- It's official: OOXML is a standardA right decisionYou can only FUD so much.Now......we get to see who's going to implement it and how much of it will be implemented. Note that if multiple vendors are using the same MS-Windows API to support OOXML, they're not creating independent implementations of...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Fast Tracking, Office Open XML, oXML, OSI, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Open XML takes another step forward
- Looks like Microsoft’s OOXML is continuing its march towards approval. Doug Mahugh of Microsoft posted Friday that: "I and the other members of the US delegation to the BRM ... are recommending that the US maintain its Approve position on DIS 29500. The next step will be for the...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Standard, XML, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Iso standards, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Podcast: Beacon woes, Techonorati revamp, Kindle, ODF and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss Facebook's Beacon fiasco for starters. At this point it's clear that Beacon was flawed from the beginning, and the company and its CEO are having trouble handling the controversy after earning their way to the top of the social...
- Tags: Facebook, Podcast, Technorati, Blog, OpenDocument Format, Podcasts, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Internet, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?
- Last week, after interviewing most of the players involved in a controversy regarding the future of the OpenDocument Format (a controversy mostly rooted in the confusion of two nearly identical but very different acronyms: ODf and ODF), I noted that some of those players -- IBM, the World Wide Web...
- Tags: W3C, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., CDF, Edwards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'
- OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'Wow!David-Thanks for the large effort here.At least the Spanish like our style.-SamGreat job, DavidThanks for digging a little truth out of the muckety-muck.Mucking is more of a muck-mongers malingering manipulation of many malignant minds. The muck just oozes out of them.Thanks...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format community, OpenDocument Format, car engine, theatric, Unix, belt, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-29
- Podcast: ODF, giant global graphs, Cubic Telecom and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss the curious case of the OpenDocument Format and the role of the OpenDocument Foundation. David takes a deep dive into the controversy that rose out of the OpenDocument Foundation proposing an alternative to the OpenDocument Format. It turns out...
- Tags: Podcast, OpenDocument Format, David, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Podcasts, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Podcast: Amazon's Kindle, AMD's Spider, the Hackintosh and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss the debut of Amazon's Kindle ebook reader. The reviews so far peg Kindle as a work in progress (a version 1.0 device) that won't immediately light the fires of the book or newspaper industry, but it is a step up...
- Tags: Podcast, Amazon.com Inc., E-book, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Amazon Kindle, Ebook Reader, Podcasts, E-books, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Internet, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's future
- I've been so busy with other stuff that I've only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium's Common Document Format CDF had been identified by the OpenDocument Foundation as a superior document format to the OpenDocument Format that it...
- Tags: Drama, OpenDoc, Fact, OpenDocument Format, Disagreement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- News to know: Apple patch; Fusion fun; Quantum computing; ODF; Vista galore
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Hacker finds 492,000 unprotected Oracle, SQL database servers. Apple monster update fixes 41 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities Dan Farber: Michael Dell promises 'Greenprint' reference architecture Larry Ellison: First Fusion apps to arrive early in 2008 ...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Server, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Computing, OpenDocument Format, Quantum Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OpenDocument Format (ODF), Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- OpenDocument Foundation folds. Will Microsoft benefit?
- The OpenDocument Foundation -- a group whose name and charter would lead one to believe that it was backing the OpenDocument Format ODF, but which ended up backing a different document format instead -- has closed its doors. Sam Hiser, a systems consultant who was Vice President...
- Tags: Benefit, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- ODF and differences of opinion
- When I read that the OpenDocument Foundation had decided to back away from work on ODF in favor of CDF (a W3C-backed standard) out of a belief that ODF wouldn't achieve the real-world interoperability goals the OpenDocument Foundation was originally created to achieve, I wondered whether I should bother with...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Will GNOME split give Microsoft Open XML standards win?
- Microsoft's efforts to overturn a vote earlier this year denying its Open XML "fast track" standards certification seem to be getting a boost from the GNOME Foundation. GNOME Foundation founder Miguel deIcaza is a Novell employee, and his actions have been closely scrutinized since Microsoft signed its...
- Tags: Gnome Foundation, Microsoft Office, GNOME, XML, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Standards, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML
- ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXMLIs the vote the most important issue?A splintering of ODF advocates won't affect IBM's attempt to discomfit a rival nor slow those who believe Microsoft villainous. But it does reduce or make less enthusiastic the number of those campaigning against Office and for ODF...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Matusow, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML
- Microsoft's battle with backers of the Open Document Format ODF standard could end up going the way that so many contests do: Won by Microsoft as much -- if not more -- because of the ineptitude of its competition than by Redmond's prowess. Just as Netscape and...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
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