OpenDocument Foundation To Drop ODF

poet sends us to Computerworld for a story on the intention of the OpenDocument Foundation to drop support for Open Document Format, OASIS and ISO standards not withstanding, in favor of the Compound Documents Format being promoted by the W3C. The foundation's director of business affairs, Sam Hiser, dropped this bomb in a blog posting a couple of weeks ago. Hiser believes CDF has a better shot at compatibility with Microsoft's OOXML, and says that the foundation has been disappointed with the direction of ODF over the last year.

Re:So is ODF (the format) dead, then?

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:So is ODF (the format) dead, then?

[AuMatar]

Splendid! Who wants to contribute to a foundation to "promote" OOXML?

Miguel de Icaza?

Re:OpenDocument Foundation?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait a second here, there is the OpenDocument Foundation and you say you used to be with the OpenDocument Fellowship. Is that a 12-Step program? Monks? Secret Society?

Re:OpenDocument Foundation?

[LiquidCoooled]

BRIAN:
        Are you the Judean People's Front?
REG:
        Fuck off!
BRIAN:
        What?
REG:
        Judean People's Front. We're the People's Front of Judea! Judean People's Front. Cawk.
FRANCIS:
        Wankers.
BRIAN:
        Can I... join your group?

Re:Some elaboration

[Anonymous Coward]

Note to self, never trust a "Foundation" that makes their website with <META http-equiv="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Created with CuteSITE Builder">

Re:OpenDocument Foundation?

[risk one]

As the founding member of both the OpenDocument Federation, and the OpenDocument Alliance (both very recently founded), I can now officially state that we support a move back to unformatted text files. We are also in favor of increased funding to OpenDocument organizations, people paying attention to us, and we are in talks with Microsoft about our recent "Porsches for founding members" program.

If these initiatives are successful, we intend to combine our operations with the OpenDocument Union, the OpendDocument Pan-Atlantic Pact, the OpenDocument Coven, the OpenDocument Reading Group and the OpenDocument David Hasselhoff fanclub in hopes of getting many more people to pay attention to us.

Re:OpenDocument Foundation?

[kisielk]

Splitter!

In other news...

[Craig Maloney]

In other news, McDonalds has decided to stop selling the Whopper, opting instead for the Big Boy Classic.

Re:OpenDocument Foundation?

[Anonymous Coward]

You need to clear the path first, preferably by throwing a chair.

Re:questions

[Nazlfrag]

Oh. I, see. That's why, why he talks... talks like that. It's just that, there's quite, a few pauses, in Esperanto. You don't, you know, hear it, well not much, thanks to the lack... lack of, native speakers.