OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta?
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| The real OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta is due April 30. With any version, you are
| welcome and encouraged to test to find and report bugs and to discover new
| features. The stable OpenOffice.org 3.0 release is still due September 2008.
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http://www.oooninja.com/2008/04/openofficeorg-30-beta.html
OpenOffice.org 3.0 codeline now changed to LGPLv3
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| On a regular basis we provide developer snapshots to gather feedback on
| features and fixes that have been implemented on the way to OpenOffice.org
| 3.0.
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/openoffice_org_3_0_codeline
Recent:
Will OpenOffice.org support OOXML ?
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| The answer is no !
|
| From version 3.0 OpenOffice.org will be able to read MS Office 2007
| documents.
|
| The purpose is not to support an academic developed file format, but to
| help the pour users who by accident get hands on a document from
| Microsoft Office 2007.
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http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/04/will-openofficeorg-support-ooxml.html
New features in OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 (available now)
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| When updating extensions, OpenOffice.org will launch the web browser to the
| appropriate web pages for more convenient updating. Extensions can have
| non-geeky-looking display names, but if the publisher omits the display name,
| the geeky-looking filename is used instead. Extension publishers can include
| links to their sites and to release notes.
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http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/new-features-openofficeorg-240.html
Recent:
Software wars
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| Allegations of committee-stuffing, the outcome of votes overridden by
| political appointees, a final decision that many involved consider tainted:
| this may sound like a discredited election in some third world country. But
| it is actually a description of an ugly fight over international technical
| standards that wrapped up this week. Microsoft came out on top, but at the
| cost of tarnishing its reputation and the credibility of an important
| back-room process that oils the wheels of many global industries.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fc9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworlduk.com%2Ftool
Related:
Martin Bryan: we are getting “standardization by corporation”
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| A November informative report of Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
| WG1 highlights the fallout of the ECMA-376 fast-track process for ISO. He
| says he is 'glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible'
|
| [...]
|
| In what is an astonishingly outspoken report, Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC
| JTC1/SC34 WG1 has given us insight into the total mess that Microsoft/ECMA
| have caused during their scandalous, underhand and unremitting attempts to
| get - what is a very poorly written specification {i.e. DIS 29500 aka OOXML,
| AR} - approved as an ISO standard. …
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30107/martin-bryan:we-are-getting-standardization-by-corporation
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