Topic : ODF (Open Document Format)
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| I cannot find the link right now, but someone said that ODF was supported in
| early versions of TextEdit for Leopard, but that it later was removed. As the
| link you refer to is from 2006, I would not expect too much.
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| New Leopard innovations:
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| http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#textedit
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| ODF / OpenDocument is Listed here.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5575555
CDF: Disrupting the Disruption
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| It may be news to some -- not to the ODF Community, certainly -- that we at
| the OpenDocument Foundation have been displeased with the direction of ODF
| development this year. We find that ODF is not the open format with the open
| process we thought it was or originally intended it to be.
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http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/10/cdf-disrupting-.html
Thanks, [H]omer. Just for completeness....
OOXML Payback Time as Global Standards Work in SC 34 "Grinds to a Halt"
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| But unfortunately, the damage has not stopped there: since the OOXML ballot
| closed on September 2, not a single ballot has received enough votes to count
| in this important committee. Why? Because the last minute arrivals to SC 34
| are not bothering to vote.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20071016092352827
Related:
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
The OOXML Odyssey: Reader Outrage Edition
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| What does it say about Microsoft and its current OOXML push that our
| readers -- essentially, the home field for Microsoft in this contest -- are
| so clearly opposed to the Redmond-sponsored technology?
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http://reddevnews.com/blogs/weblog.aspx?blog=1238#1
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