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OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 and IS26300 Conformance…

As he promised last week, Alex Brown has gone ahead and tested an ODF file saved by OpenOffice 2.4.0 against the RelaxNG schema for IS26300, and as you would expect the test failed. (just like his test of Office 2007) Clearly there is still … Continue reading

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ODF Project Editor, An Open Letter On The OpenXML Standardization Process

Patrick Durusau, the project editor for IS26300 and the Open Document Format TC in OASIS, has posted an open letter on his site discussing the process that Ecma has been through to standardize OpenXML. He discusses the increasing openness of … Continue reading

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IBM’s Stance Against OpenXML Is Increasingly Confusing

According to Wikipedia the term FUD was first defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company, Amdahl Corp.: “FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instil in the minds of potential … Continue reading

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A Closer Look At Those “Single Standard” Policy Mandates

The ODF Alliance published a report on 20th December last year that puzzled me a little. The document talked about the steps that governments globally are taking in the debate around XML based document formats, and specifically tried to outline a … Continue reading

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OpenXML Accessibility, The Burton Group Favouring OpenXML, Final Set Of Proposed Dispositions

It has been a busy week on the OpenXML front, I have been travelling for the last few days and have just spent the last 30 minutes trying to catch up on the long list in my inbox. Three of … Continue reading

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Inconsequential Drama In the ODF Camp

Over the last few days there has been a lot of discussion in the press and on blogs about some so-called fragmentation in the world of ODF, or the Open Document Format. Much of the press is centered on the evolving … Continue reading

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