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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2005-07-06
“For the past five years we have been hell bent on a quest for a universal file format.”
What they have spent most of the last few years doing:
Trying to cram extensions into ODF without much thought about why they’re needed, as such they were rejected.
Promoting vapourware (da vinci plugin) for the last few years.
Promoting themselves to all and sundry.
Starting the recent anti-ODF FUD.
If you want to know more about the problems with the foundation, find Bruce D'Arcus online, he was initially a member, but left for good reasons.