Can IBM save OpenOffice.org from itself?
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Document Wars
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Document Wars covers the portable XML document battle between OpenDocument, Office Open XML, and CDF, the W3C's Compound Document Format. The relationship to the Grand Convergence of desktop, server, device and web systems will be decisive, with application independence and universal interoperabili
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OpenDocument
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A collection of comments and discussions concerning OpenDocument and the challenge presented by Microsoft's Office Open XML.
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Saved by 1 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-01-10
- Garyedwards on 2008-01-10 - Tags cdf , ibm , iso , oasis , odf , ooxml , opendocument , openoffice , sun , symphony
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In e-mailed comments, Heintzman said his criticisms about the situation have been made openly.
"We think that Open Office has quite a bit of potential and would love to see it move to the independent foundation that was promised in the press release back when Sun originally announced OpenOffice," he said. "We think that there are plenty of existing models of communities, [such as] Apache and Eclipse, that we can look to as models of open governance, copyright aggregation and licensing regimes that would make the code much more relevant to a much larger set of potential contributors and implementers of the technology....
"Obviously, by joining we do believe that the organization is important and has potential," he wrote. "I think that new voices at the table, including IBM's, will help the organization become more efficient and relevant to a greater audience.... Our primary reason for joining was to contribute to the community and leverage the work that the community produces.... I think it is true there are many areas worthy of improvement and I sincerely hope we can work on those.... I hope the story coming out of Barcelona isn't a dysfunctional community story, but rather a [story about a] potentially significant and meaningful community with considerable potential that has lots of room for improvement...."
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Public Comment
on 2008-01-10 by garyedwards
This was a day long event demonstrating for all the world to see that there is no such thing as ODF interoperability. The exchange of documents between OpenOffice 2.0, KOffice and Lotus Symphony is pathetic.
The results of the day long event were so discouraging that Rob Weir took to threatening developers who attended in his efforts to keep a lid on it. I think this is called damage control :). From what i hear, it was a very long day for Rob. but that's no excuse for his threatening anyone who might publicly talk about these horrific interop problems. The public expects these problems to be fixed. But how can they be fixed if the issues can't be discussed publicly?
on 2008-01-10 by garyedwards
Lotus Symphony is based on the OpenOffice 1.1.4 code base that IBM ripped off back when OpenOffice was under dual license - SSSL and LGPL.