I think that we should put out some sort of counter press release stating that Open Document Foundation has nothing to do with OpenOffice.org as this story has now been picked up by Slashdot and there may be a great deal of confusion as to what is really going on.
-----Original Message----- From: Ian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Marketing] OpenDocument Foundation drops support for ODF On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 11:45 -0500, Sean W. O'Quin wrote: > What is OpenDocument Foundation's relationship to OOo? Have we come back > with a counter release? Open Document Foundation is just a title. Its nothing to do with OOo and now apparently nothing to do with odf. Its members are few in number and they have a particular view that is not held by too many others as far as I can tell. Sort of makes a bit of a nonsense of the their title really. They can't be an Open Document Foundation if they don't support the Open Document fileformat ;-) The Open Document Alliance is the umbrella organisation supporting odf and the Open Document Fellowship is the grass roots support group and a member of the Open Document Alliance. OOo is a fully working implementation of odf. Open Document Foundation is not really relevant to odf so why counter anything? IIRC we still have an Open Document Foundation registered here in the UK but it wasn't needed once the OD Alliance started. Ian -- New QCA Accredited IT Qualifications www.theINGOTs.org You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
