Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 31st Oct 2007 19:29 UTC, submitted by WillM
A group formed five years ago to promote the OpenDocument Format has abandoned ODF and will favor one developed by the World Wide Web Consortium known as the 'Compound Document Format', or CDF. The OpenDocument Foundation's format failed to meet market requirements, the group said.
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The whole "foundation" consists of three men, who actually have nothing to do with either the development or the promotion of OpenOffice. But they curiously have that name, which makes them look more important than they in fact are. They are not the "Open Document Alliance", which is the real mother organisation backing up and promoting odf, and which you may confuse it with.
The Open Document Foundation (and their opinion about ODF)is as important as if you took two friends and founded a "OOXML Foundation" and then started spewing "facts" about how bad OOXML is to make it look as if "ooxml supporters are turning their backs to ooxml". Thats basically what those three guys there are doing. Astroturfing. Their name is _extremely_ misleading and this should be mentioned in the article.
Dont fall for this astroturf. This was on slashdot yesterday, and was deleted after a few hours after a editor realised what he linked to the frontpage.