Hi Rich,
In October of 2004, following the EU announcement that OpenDoc was the
only specification to meet their Open Standard - Open XML file format
requirements, David Wheeler began the OpenFormula Project as a subset of
OpenDocument. It's a massive job that has long troubled the
productivity environment industry, but he was willing to take it on.
Somebody has to solve that problem once and for all.
When IBM joined the OpenDoc TC in May of 2005, they put two developers
on the OpenFormula Project; effectively taking over David's great effort.
Thank you for pointing out that at any time Morten Widener or anyone
else with an interest in the OpenDoc Spreadsheet work could have
contacted us with criticisms or contributions. If it was such a great
concern to Morten, he could have even posted his problems and solutions
to the OOo Spreadsheet project discussion list. Sadly i think his real
problem is that of envy. But that's just my reading of his complaint.
Open Source efforts need to stick together, even if they compete for
mind share. KDE - KOffice is an incredible contributor to OpenDocument.
So was Corel, and so many others. Now IBM and Adobe have stepped up
and are taking on much of the load involved in pushing OpenDoc into the
next generation of collaborative computing over the Open Internet. The
application developers on the TC routinely exchange explanations as to
how they do things and why they chose the methods they did. It would
perhaps be a beneficial experience for Morten to join an Open Standards
group and see up close and personal what it's like to work on a project
that everyone understands is more important than any particular
implementation.
~ge~
Rich wrote:
this is really great, but i have seen lately some complaints about od.
most of them raise false arguments, but there are some that i haven't
seen a response so have no idea how significant they are.
you have informed people about various aspects of od and it is very
important to oo.org, so i hope you could clarify this 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 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!
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