OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation' - Berlind Talkback - 0 views
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ODF was dead-on-arrival not because it's a better or worse choice than OOXML (I have no idea which is better, really) but because the nature of those with UNIX DNA never allows these kinds of "open" agreements to succeed. They all just splinter. Every time.
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The sad thing is that in early January of 2003, it was proposed that we start with a clean slate effort based on structural document generics instead of accepting the OpenOffice XML spec, and trying to strip out the application specific settings. History will record that we accepted the OpenOffice XML spec, and were unable, after five years of effort (2002-2007) to clean things up.
Perhaps ODF was doomed almost from the start. The UNiX suggestion is interesting if not an arrow through the core.