ODF and OOXML: Something New to Ponder
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| Like I said, interesting, in that regardless of how "right" people think ODF
| is over OOXML, it's still just one more thing for big vendors to fight about.
| In the end, Gary and the Foundation are saying, it's the customers that lose
| out, trying to get their documents opened.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/archives/071004-185336.html
Matt Asay does not seem to understand that Novell is likely to extend OOo
the 'Microsoft way', with patent 'protection' and all that junk they have done
since the release of a derivative in March this year. They introduce
incompatibilities between the Windows and Linux version because, according to
Ron Hovsepian, Microsoft imposed some legal restrictions.
Weak communities and strong forks
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| What such vendors fail to see is that a community's right to fork a project
| is actually its greatest strength. The fork is the community's most valuable
| tool for ensuring the ongoing health of the project.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9791116-16.html
Related:
OpenOffice.org Tipping Point?
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| It's a shame Michael has chosen now - a turning point in OpenOffice.org and a
| moment when Sun has radically improved the SCA in response to broad feedback
| from many communities - as a time to mount a fresh challenge to Sun that by
| implication also harms OpenOffice.org. And when you distill out all the
| details, that's what this turns out to be even by Michael's admission - a
| competitive issue, not a community one.
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/sca_r_office
Microsoft playing three card monte with XML conversion
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| Gary Edwards of the Open Document Foundation, a leading member
| of its technical committee, says Microsoft is playing proprietary
| games aimed at controlling XML file formats and preventing the
| Open Document Format from gaining a foothold.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=959
Sun Refuses LGPL for OpenOffice; Novell forks
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| Because of Sun's refusal to accept LPGL extensions in the upstream code,
| Michael Meeks (who recently talked about Sun's OO.o community failings, and
| ODF and OOXML) has announced ooo-build (previously just for build fixes) is
| now a formal fork of OpenOffice to be located at http://go-oo.org/.
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http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/03/1212234.shtml
OpenOffice.Org 3.0 feature list
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| OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2007) is taking place this week. Among the
| first information available is a talk about the future of OOorg.
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/openofficeorg-30-feature-list/
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