[discuss] OASIS OpenDoc Ratification

Hi Y'all, Great news! We've just past the critical 15% threshold of support votes for OASIS membership ratification of the OOo OpenDocument XML universal file format specification. This is not a trivial feat, and it was touch and go as of this mornings tally where the vote had stagnated at 13%

[discuss] Re: OASIS OpenDoc Ratification

Lars D. wrote: That is really great news. Gary, can you post a URL for a press release after the voting is complete on Saturday or Sunday? Hi Lars, Yes, we will all be celebrating on Saturday. We are now at 20% (68 out of 341 delegates in favor of the OpenDocument). From here we can pretty

[discuss] Re: OASIS OpenDoc Ratification

Hi Alexandro, Good point. I'm thinking that Metro is primarily a replacement/alternative for PDF. One of the more interesting requests that came before the OASIS OpenDocument TC was from the ORACLE Collaboration Suite workgroup. They asked if we would implement a simple flag that would enable a

[discuss] Re: OASIS OpenDoc Ratification

Hi Alexandro, Good point. I'm thinking that Metro is primarily a replacement/alternative for PDF. One of the more interesting requests that came before the OASIS OpenDocument TC was from the ORACLE Collaboration Suite workgroup. They asked if we would implement a simple flag that would enab

[discuss] Re: OASIS OpenDoc Ratification

Hi Christian, "There are many of us in the community, including myself foremost of all, who will probably not appreciate the significance of this news for quite some time. Well, ponder this. The European Union requirements specifically state that information systems and applications must suppo

[discuss] Re: OASIS OpenDoc Ratification

OSBC? If the Internet is "the" computer, open XML is the API. Just when you thought the only decision you had to make was how to cover your quarterly check to Redmond, someone comes along and complicates things. Bastardos! ~ge~ Nicolas Mailhot wrote: John W. Kennedy a écrit : Gary Edw

[discuss] Approval of OpenDocument v1.0 as OASIS Standard

This message was recently sent out to all OASIS Members from Mary McRae, OASIS Administration: OASIS members: We are pleased to announce that the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0 Specification has been approved as an OASIS Standard. The submission of the approved

[discuss] Article: Why Google Scares Bill Gates - FORTUNE

If you have not yet seen this, it's worth a read. Very informative with some interesting speculation. Including the possibility of Google purchasing StarOffice as part of the Google Desktop threat to Microsoft. Fortune Magazine: http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,10500

[discuss] Article: Why Google Scares Bill Gates - FORTUNE

If you have not yet seen this, it's worth a read. Very informative with some interesting speculation. Including the possibility of Google purchasing StarOffice as part of the Google Desktop threat to Microsoft. Fortune Magazine: http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1050065-1

[discuss] OASIS Members Approve OpenDocument as OASIS Standard

--- Begin Message --- Members Approve OpenDocument as OASIS Standard IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Others Develop Royalty-Free Standard for Office Applications Document Format BOSTON, MA, USA; 23 MAY 2005 -- OASIS, the international e-business standards consortium, today announced that its

[discuss] Christian and The Giant Peach

Determined Open Source evangelist and advocate Christian Einfeldt has struck again, this time taking a bite out of the giant peach that is the incredible future of Internet computing. Mad Penguin has published Christian's latest effort: *Open source: where we are now. where we are going

[discuss] Re: [xml-dev] OASIS Members Approve OpenDocument as OASIS Standard

open standards effort that is guaranteed to remain open - thanks to some prescient foresight on the part of Sun lawyers when the file format was first submitted to OASIS. Still, it's nice to see Patrick Gannon recognizing the problem, and using the occasion of the OpenDocument ratification

[discuss] OASIS: Meaningful open standards or mirage?

Hey, another good article that comes on the heels of the OASIS OpenDocument press release. In this article OOo member and renown open source opinion maker Sam Hiser takes a big bite out of the controversial OASIS IPR policy. OASIS: Meaningful open standards or mirage? http://software.n

[discuss] Microsoft's EU Proposal a Blow to Open Source

eWeek has published a series of articles covering the recent anti trust settlement between Microsoft and the European Union. To me the most interesting piece is an article titled, "Microsoft's EU Proposal a Blow to Open Source". The article can be found at: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,175

[discuss] How to standardize Spreadsheet formulas?

Hi Marco, There has been much discussion at the OpenDocument TC regarding the "OpenFormula Project", initiated by David Wheeler in October of 2004. This was a concern for the EU, and lucky for us David took up the challenge. Dr. Nathaniel Borenstein, one of the IBM representatives who recent

[discuss] Why Microsoft Passed on OpenDoc XML

Stephen O'Grady of Redmonk, has an excellent commentary about MS XML and the OASIS OpenDocument XML. He quotes Erwin Tenhumberg to make his case. It's short but well worth reading. Especially since the bl

[discuss] LinuxWorld in San Francisco

This is amazing! A few hours ago i was on the phone with Ryan Singer, the OOo west coast marketing manager, as he excitedly told me about an agreement he had just reached with Debian to host an OOo pod. Two hours later that information shows up in a Ziff Davis blog page as though it was a highli

[discuss] Hiser comments on MassGov ETRM doc

OpenDocument expert and long time OpenOffice.org member Sam Hiser has responded to Massachusetts request for comments. You really should read his excellent summation of these recent world changing events: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/stories/viewstory.php?rid=42705 Although Sam says it all,

[discuss] Re: AMAAAAAAAZING! But suggestion/request for a feature...

Hi Ned, What a great comment! Thanks for taking the time to express our opinions and appreciation. Lots of time and effort went into OOo v2.0, and as a fellow OOo user, i agree with you completely. It is beyond awesome. The OOo developers are taking on what Microsoft claims to be the great

[discuss] Breaking News: Massachusetts mandated use of OpenDocument is FINAL

IBM's Bob Sutor has published the news at his blog: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog_comments.jspa?blog=384&entry=95750&ca=drs-bl ~ge~ Whiskey for my men and beer for our horses, It's been another good day fighting evil forces!

[discuss] Re: Breaking News: Massachusetts mandated use of OpenDocument is FINAL

Gary Edwards wrote: > IBM's Bob Sutor has published the news at his blog: > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog_comments.jspa?blog=384&entry=95750&ca=drs-bl > This is really good! Although final migration won't be complete until Jan 2007, all

[discuss] Re: Breaking News: Massachusetts mandated use of OpenDocument is FINAL

issue somewhat :) http://blogs.gnome.org/view/mortenw/2005/06/16/0 of course, he probably should have raised these points during creation of od specification, but still - is there a problem ? if so, what could be the solution ? Gary Edwards wrote: IBM's Bob Sutor has published the news at hi

[discuss] Re: Breaking News: Massachusetts mandated use of OpenDocument is FINAL

Chad Smith wrote: On 9/23/05, Gary Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let the OOo downloads begin! Brace the mirrors! Prepare the community user lists for action! Yeah, right, okay. It's one state. And it's not like it is everybody in the state - it's just people do

[discuss] Demand ODF!

Hi all, There is an interesting interview at ZDnet with MS honcho, Stephen Sinofsky, “*Office beta coming in November includes support for PDF*” http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593-5887827.html The subtitle is, “*Has the battle over document file formats forced Microsoft to blink?* There is of

[discuss] OASIS OpenDocument Certification Call

The OASIS OpenDocument XML file format specification has passed through the public comment phase of the OASIS standardization process. A call went out to interested vendors and computational consumers to certify successful implementations of the OpenDoc specification. It would be nice if IBM a

[discuss] The Future Unfolds

I just got this link from a friend and it really gave me pause. It's a link to a flash presentation created by the Museum of Media History. Very thought provoking. http://www.broom.org/epic/ ~ge~ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMA

[discuss] Fight over 'forms' clouds future of Net applications

There is an interesting article at ZDnet discussing the battle over next generation forms. According to the article, confusion reigns. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5581106.html One problem is a W3C splinter group that has broken from the W3C's XForm initiative. This group includes brows

[discuss] Re: Fight over 'forms' clouds future of Net applications

Hi Jacob, Check out this December 23, 2004 post in the XML developer forum: http://xml.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=dev&msgNo=2214 The post is from Daniel Volgelheim, who serves on both the OASIS OpenDocument XML file format TC, and the W3C XForms TC. You'll see from the above link t

[discuss] Re: filming community giving out OOo 2.0

Hi Christian, You didn't give a time or date? And what was that bit about the rain? ~ge~ Christian Einfeldt wrote: Hi, I thought that it might be interesting for the Digital Tipping Point film for us to film a group of us in San Francisco giving out OOo 2.0 CDs. I think that I might be able to