An Antic Disposition: Cracks in the Foundation - The Diigo Meta page

• 07 Oct 10
  

  Graham Perrin

  2007 2010 2010-10 2010-10-07 OpenDocument

  • Cracks in the Foundation
  • October 7, 2007
• 25 Nov 07
  

  Simon Reavely

  odf cdf ooxml

• 03 Nov 07
  

  Marc Lijour

  microsoft ooxml openoffice opensource opendocument

• 24 Oct 07
  

  Gary Edwards

  foundation ibm odf odf-civil-war opendocument weir

  • You must admire their tenacity. Gary Edwards and the pseudonymous "Marbux". The mythology of Silicon Valley is filled with stories of two guys and a garage founding great enterprises. And here we have two guys, and through blogs, interviews, and constant attendance at conferences, they have become some of the most-heard voices on ODF. Maybe it is partly due to the power of the name? The "OpenDocument Foundation" sounds so official. Although it has no official role in the ODF standard, this name opens doors. The ODF Alliance , the ODF Fellowship, the OASIS ODF TC, ODF Adoption TC (and many other groups without "ODF" in their name) have done far more to promote and improve ODF, yet the OpenDocument Foundation, Inc. seems to score the panel invites. Not bad for two guys without a garage.
• 08 Oct 07
  

  webmink

  Rob Weir does a good job analysing a serious problem of attack-from-within that faces the ODF movement.

  OpenDocument ODF Standards

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  Gary Edwards on 2007-10-24
  An eMail went out today, October 24th, 2007, nominating IBM's Rob "Show me your garage!" Weir to be the new Co Chairman of OASIS ODF TC.  So it's looks like it's true; IBM is moving to take over ODF and OpenOffice.
  
  Not that that's bad.  In the long run this is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to ODF and OpenOffice.  There is no way IBM's Lotus Notes business plan for ODF-OOo could be any worse than Sun's plan has turned out to be. 
  
  ~ge~
  
  

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