Slashdot has the piece over closure of the OpenDocument Foundation. Not affiliated to the OpenDocument Format, the foundation (not live anymore) recently made news for announcing that they no longer believed in the format. For some reason they believed that W3C’s Compound Document Format was the new chosen one. Actually Andy Updegrove might have the reason for switch.
Once the foundation’s management realized that CDF and ODF were not in the same league, they ended the argument by closing the foundation itself. Quite an extreme move, considering that the foundation had a purpose, and a format was enough to dismantle it!
Will it be wrong to say that the drama could possibly have created FUD about ODF? I think it had the potential, especially because of the similarity in names. I hope we get to hear more form the founders, otherwise they are going to see their names go around a lot in speculations.
November 13th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
CORRECTION: Updegrove is wrong; CDF is viable. Foundation closed because it was chartered to support work on ODF, which ceased in Spring 2007.
Our e-mail boxes are open. If anyone has any questions, we’ll address them in an orderly fashion.
November 13th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Sam, thanks for your comment. But as an active ODF user, I thought that we would get to hear more from the foundation. It will be great if CDF’s viability can be seen through counter argument to Updegrove’s points. Waiting to see more …
November 26th, 2007 at 6:25 am
[...] while back the OpenDocument Foundation folded up, withdrawing its support for the ODF in favor of CDF. The reason for the switch is buried in the [...]