Hi Peter, all > Just a heads up. On FOSDEM I learned that TDF managed to raise money and > do the work for ODF v 1.3.
I believe this is a quite relevant announcement! If ODF 1.3 is only used by a single Office suite then it will no longer be "software independent" which IMHO defeats the purpose of an Open Document format... On the other hand given that ODF 1.3 is currently not an ISO standard, Microsoft will not care about it until it is (in fact they are making sure that ODF is not used at all) This will also isolate AOO since Open Documents will only travel in one direction without feature loss (much like what happens now with Microsoft's XML formats) Maybe it is in OASIS' interest (and even TDF's?) that other software adopts ODF 1.3 and that they could/should provide some support/developer time? Regards, Pedro --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
