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2008/11/21 - ODF Keeps Winning; No Wonder Microsoft Went Corrupt Against It .... a good roundup of the situation over at ComputerWorld (Boycott Novell is referenced as ... |
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2008/11/21 - A FEW days ago we explained Novell’s role in harming OpenOffice.org, ODF, Red Hat, and GNU/Linux ..... Friendly 'Boycott Novell' Supporters Robbed of Voice ... |
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2008/11/21 - The following short article is a reminder of the fact that in order to escape Microsoft’s lock-in, ODF or old binary formats are still required. ... |
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2008/11/21 - A committee is already established to manage ODF and enforce conformance. ..... Boycott Novell has gained a lot more validation over the past week with ... |
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2008/11/20 - It’s best to escape to ODF as soon as possible. Microsoft goes to great lengths to muddy ... IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 19th, 2008 - Part 2 ... |
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2008/11/20 - ODF. Free software And Using Open Document Formats in Education · AbiWord: How To Start Word Processing in Two Seconds Flat ... |
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2008/11/19 - IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 17th, 2008 - Part 2 .... Microsoft's Plan to Harm GNU/Linux and ODF via the Web · Monoment [sic] of Novell's Demise ... |
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2008/11/19 - MS-OOXML was 100% a reaction to ODF, their tactics to use ECMA and the ..... ODF is mostly in the hands of OASIS at the moment, so ISO’s (and ECMA’s) ... |
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2008/11/18 - Alex Brown, in ODF – OASIS and JTC 1 Get It Together, refers to those like me, who have been vocal in our disapproval of ISO’s handling of office-document ... |
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2008/11/18 - Boycott Novell did some digging about this latest Microsoft study, ... What this project was all about, really, was to design a toolkit for ODF Documents. ... |
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2008/11/17 - A FEW days ago we explained Novell’s role in harming OpenOffice.org, ODF, Red Hat, and GNU/Linux as a whole. Novell’s poor business model is hard to blame ... |
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2008/11/15 - IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 20th, 2008 - Part 1 ... ODF Resources · OOXML Abuse Index |
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2008/11/15 - IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 20th, 2008 - Part 2 ... ODF Resources · OOXML Abuse Index |
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2008/11/15 - Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications. |
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2008/11/14 - OpenDocment format (ODF) does not have a marketing force or department behind ... It is undeniable that ODF is becoming widely recognised as an industry ... |
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2008/11/14 - Friendly 'Boycott Novell' Supporters Robbed of Voice · More Microsoft Jack Revisionism ... Microsoft's Plan to Harm GNU/Linux and ODF via the Web ... |
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2008/11/14 - Microsoft's Plan to Harm GNU/Linux and ODF via the Web .... Microsoft's Partner Group Attacks ODF A typical mouthpiece of Microsoft Corporation goes batting ... |
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ODF comes complete with many of the necessary features, ... ODF, New OpenOffice. org off to a Great Start, Despite Novell’s ‘Sabotage’ Attempts ... |
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2008/11/11 - *caro (n=caro@47.208.102-84.rev.gaoland.net) has joined #boycottnovell, Nov 10 09:02 ...... Microsoft's Plan to Harm GNU/Linux and ODF via the Web ... |
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2008/11/11 - IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 19th, 2008 - Part 2 ... ODF Resources · OOXML Abuse Index: Please Register Your Complaint by Thursday ... |
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2008/11/10 - Suspicious individual in BoycottNovell comments and IRC channel ... ODF Resources · OOXML Abuse Index: Please Register Your Complaint by Thursday ... |
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2008/11/07 - There is nothing they don’t intrude, including ODF [1, 2, 3, 4], which they mocked (well, ... IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 20th, 2008 - Part 2 ... |
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2008/11/06 -OpenDocument. Committee to ensure ODF apps conform to standard · Sun, IBM Launch ODF Tools Initiative · ODF Toolkit Union ... |
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2008/11/05... 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22], is not so interested in facts and evidence, such as the simple observation that Microsoft is attempting to grab control ODF [1, ... |
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2008/11/04 -The proposal for ODF to be accepted as a Malaysian Standard by SIRIM, ... Four months after the Malaysian proposal went to sleep, Italy made ODF a National ... |
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2008/11/03-One memorable example of such technical sabotage is Microsoft’s action against DR-DOS, although ODF might be another example [1, 2, 3], perhaps even ... |
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2008/11/03 -OASIS Members Form Committee to Advance Interoperability and Conformance of OpenDocument Format (ODF) Applications · Public Procurement and FOSS ... |
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2008/11/02-yuhong, And believe that anything in OOXML that isn’t in ODF can be added to ODF using extensions, which is far better. Nov 01 04:49 ... |
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2008/11/02 -Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? More Interesting Prebundling Moves · Quick Mention: Kevin Carmony Sued · IRC:#boycottnovell ... |
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2008/11/01-Microsoft seems to have used similar techniques against ODF [1, 2] and Novell is guilty of .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/10/29-Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications. |
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2008/10/26-As a timely note, another lesser-known office suite which supports ODF is AbiWord. ... AbiWord also supports Open Document Format (ODF), for completely open ... |
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2008/10/25-twitter, I don’t see what advantage OOXML and other M$ patented things would be in Novell if everyone else was using ODF and Java. Oct 25 01:42 ... |
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2008/10/17-I attended last week’s ODF Workshop in South Africa, and I really enjoyed the event. .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/10/16-Just as Microsoft tried to gain control over ODF (blame all the luring, it seems to be have .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/10/15-At the ODF Workshop last week, a number of the delegates were asking about the right way to handle archiving of their documents. Obviously ODF offers a ... |
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2008/10/14-OOo supports several file formats, but uses OASIS’s OpenDocument Format (ODF) by default. ODF is rapidly gaining widespread acceptance and is also supported ... |
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2008/10/13-ODF, New OpenOffice.org off to a Great Start, Despite Novell's 'Sabotage' Attempts .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/10/13-Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? Microsoft's ODF tactics are ... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2008/10/12-The ODF Alliance previously listed 14 national governments and eight provincial governments as having adopted the ODF standard, with Venezuela adding more ... |
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2008/10/11-The South African government, in collaboration with the OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), will host the 2nd International OpenDocument Format ... |
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2008/10/10-That aside, Microsoft(’s stuffed panel) wants to seize control of ODF too. ... This means that the control of ODF is really in the hands of ISO (and ... |
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2008/10/08-SC34 participants are shamelessly open about their plan to hijack ODF. ... How scary it must be for Microsoft to see ODF adopted so rapidly. ... |
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2008/10/07-They didn’t openly publish the ODF changes either; we had to wait for 1.0 rev 2 from OASIS .... Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2008/10/07-It requested an “alignment” of maintenance of ODF between the work done at Oasis and that within ISO. Oct 07 14:41. schestowitz, “, Oct 07 14:41 ... |
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2008/10/07... Also it should be noted that some members of the OASIS ODF TC were present ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/10/07-Microsoft may be trying to ‘take over’ OpenDocument Format (ODF) [1, 2, 3]. Can anyone blame them? They fail to implement OOXML (which one anyway? ... |
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2008/10/07-It’s interesting to see the ODF Alliance Awards being referred to as heroism. A lot of people took heaps of personal attacks and smear campaigns [1, 2, 3, ... |
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2008/10/06-Now there is some concern that Microsoft is trying to take over the Open Document Format (ODF) process in an attempt to control or destroy ... |
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2008/10/06-In a couple of previous posts, we already mentioned Microsoft’s attempt to take over ODF [1, 2] and Glyn Moody has just weighed in on this too. ... |
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2008/10/03-With entire countries switching to ODF, Microsoft’s file formats are on the way ... Every single negative letter on ODF received by the Malaysian standards ... |
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2008/10/03-If you rummage around in the trash cans that you call sources you will eventually find evidence that ODF almost lost its IS26300 status earlier this year ... |
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2008/10/02-Microsoft May be Threatening ODF-Supportive Governments, by Proxy · Microsoft is on the ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/10/02-So, ODF “doesn’t have this bug” is simply untrue: it left it unspecified, ... Openformula (part of ODF 1.2) doesn’t MANDATE the bug, as ECMA376 was doing. ... |
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2008/10/02-I call it a takeover attempt of ODF, according to my reading of the published notes of the most recent meeting held yesterday, October 1st, and starring a ... |
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2008/10/01-Yesterday we posted a couple of updates on the OOXML and ODF situation. ... If ODF can be painted as not properly maintained, then OOXML doesn’t look so bad ... |
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2008/09/25 ... to see whether it is successful in inspiring other companies (and particularly those that were its allies in the ODF-OOXML competition, ... |
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2008/09/12-It’s also a good reason to keep Microsoft away from influencing ODF, which it may try to .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/09/01-“Every single negative letter on ODF received by the Malaysian standards organization was written either by Microsoft, or a Microsoft business partner or a ... |
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2008/09/23 ... They want, I believe, to force ODF into their hands and control. .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/09/22-Anti-ODF campaigns seem to be forgotten by some people as well [1, 2, 3, 4], especially now that Microsoft pretends to be a ‘buddy’ of ODF. ... |
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2008/09/12-It’s also a good reason to keep Microsoft away from influencing ODF, which it may try to .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/09/09-As one of the lead parties in the OOXML ISO opposition and with a government ODF strategy, the second OpenDocument Format workshop is, fittingly, ... |
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2008/09/07-Instead of one uniform standard, which was the goal of ODF, all that’s left is fragmentation ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/09/04-My post here isn’t to say which ISO standard better or worse: OOXML or ODF. But, with the ISO’s approval of OOXML as a standard for the same thing that the ... |
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2008/09/03-First of all, the latest addition to the ODF family is Sweden. ... Brazil is becoming ever more responsive to the benefits of ODF, in addition to its action ... |
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2008/09/01-“Every single negative letter on ODF received by the Malaysian standards organization was written either by Microsoft, or a Microsoft business partner or a ... |
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2008/08/30-One such format is OpenDocument Format (ODF), which is now widely recognized as an .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/08/25-Links 25/08/2008: Large Migrations to OpenOffice.org, ODF, and GNU/Linux. Posted in News Roundup at 5:11 pm by Roy Schestowitz. GNOME bluefish ... |
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2008/08/25-Has the world forgotten how viciously Microsoft attacked ODF [1, 2] and at a later stage slammed OASIS as well, especially through its ‘talking heads’? ... |
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2008/08/23-As people may be aware, especially after the Massachusetts fiasco, there was a lot of lobbying directed against ODF (and Free software, by association). ... |
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2008/08/21-ODF Keeps Winning; No Wonder Microsoft Went Corrupt Against It ODF win in Venezuela's government and other encouraging news ... |
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2008/08/18-To set the record straight on ODF, from an Indian perspective comes (fresh off the news): .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/08/16-Keep a leash on ODF because the current 1.1 version has an extension mechanism that can ... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2008/08/15-Meanwhile, down in South Africa, ODF gets another good boost from an ... Customers are now able to save all “ODF” documents including those created in “ Calc ... |
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2008/08/13-Some interesting links covering OpenOffice.org 3.0 and ODF ... ODF, New OpenOffice.org off to a Great Start, Despite Novell's 'Sabotage' Attempts ... |
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2008/08/10-Will Microsoft support ODF? Of course not. It will do minimal work to just put ... The headline reads, “Microsoft Bows to Pressure to Interoperate with ODF. ... |
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2008/08/08-ODF will be progressing to v1.2 soon and OOXML will presumably be updated to another ... There is little point in translating between ODF 1.0 and OOXML ... |
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2008/08/07-Longer term I expect to see email applications to send ODF as well as html in their emails. Just so they can use the much broader ODF set of features. ... |
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2008/08/05... MS-OOXML was supposed to supplant the Open Document Format (ODF), ... Some of the larger corp backers of ODF have leaned towards being ... |
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2008/07/31-Pamela Jones wrote: “If you believed the story put out that “ODF has won”, ..... Simply, it is much easier for them to support OOXML than ODF today in a ... |
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2008/07/27-This time they work together not on the fight against ODF (which was fruitful to an extent) .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/07/26 ... there is room for interpretation [1, 2, 3]) and, as further evidence, consider this new press release from Babya, which supports only ODF and PDF. ... |
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2008/07/22-Does Microsoft wish to ruin ODF using a Microsoft-influenced ISO? ... On a brighter note, here is another win for ODF, which Andy wrote about here. ... |
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2008/07/20-I think Microsoft sees a way to make some money with ODF, but it wants to change it to suit its own needs better. It didn’t participate in the ODF process, ... |
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2008/07/19-Despite all of these dirty tricks, ODF is going strong. Yesterday we wrote about NATO and ODF without sufficient certainty. It’s finally more official, ... |
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2008/07/16-It chooses ODF. Here is another new example of ODF support. [via Bob Sutor] ... It must support ODF, but Miguel de Icaza, a fan of Microsoft’s . ... |
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2008/07/16-month or so ago, Microsoft argued that ODF had won. It tried to escape this comment later, but Erwin thought (he wrote so in his last blog post at Sun ... |
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2008/07/12-ODF is a comprehensive document that provides detailed specifications .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/07/11-This new ODF project from South Africa will hopefully steer clear off Microsoft’ s attempt to ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/07/11-It will probably also give these children Office; You know, in order to stifle ODF and to spur the network effect using lock-in and other dependencies. ... |
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2008/07/09-OOXML/ODF Roundup: ODF is Winning, BECTA Runs Back to Microsoft's Bed · BSA and Novell, Software Patents, Microsoft · British Government Laughs at Digital ... |
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2008/07/07-OOXML was nothing but an attack on ODF and its goals. It was reactionary. ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/07/04-Down in South Africa, progress on a migration to ODF is made. Remember where the push for ODF and against OOXML came from back in May. ... |
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2008/06/28-It was only a few days that we wrote about ODF’s relevance to the World Wide Web . The developers from Sun Microsystems appear to have been doing some ... |
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2008/06/27-Moving on, it’s worth considering a new case of ODF support. ... As you can see, it’s Web-based and it support ODF (nothing explicit there about OOXML). ... |
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2008/06/24-Yesterday we wrote about Microsoft’s attempt to ‘consume’ ODF. Joining the skepticism now is the man behind the open source definition and a ... |
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2008/06/23-To a degree, ODF is a necessary prerequisite to escaping this trap, technical arguments aside. “People said I should accept the world. Bullsh*t! ... |
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2008/06/23-Regardless: Microsoft Corporation, the company that actively fought ODF and force-forced an proprietary alternative like nothing less than a deranged ... |
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2008/06/22-The benevolent activists at <NO>OOXML seem to suggest that we must use this to advance and increase the momentum of ODF, adoption-wise. ... |
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2008/06/22 ... Factors and forces that include Novell, Microsoft and ODF are part of it, and surely enough IBM feels bitter with Novell’s ambivalent yet ... |
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2008/06/21-ODF, New OpenOffice.org off to a Great Start, Despite Novell's 'Sabotage' Attempts ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/06/20-There are other wins for ODF at the moment. We summarize a few of them below. .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/06/19 -“Every single negative letter on ODF received by the Malaysian standards organization was .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office ? ... |
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2008/06/19-One day ago we wrote about ways in which Microsoft seems to be discouraging the use of ODF. It’s a must-read for background. We promised some screen shots ... |
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2008/06/18-Microsoft has been fighting ODF for years, just as HTML before, SVG, PNG etc… ... “ODF, with its status as the only internationally recognized open standard ... |
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2008/06/18-On the other hand the Open Document Format (ODF) is supported by the Indian government, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, Google etc. ... |
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2008/06/18-It is already known that Microsoft fought ODF like fire. It even ran a Get the Facts-type campaign against it. It’s easily provable because it is all well ... |
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2008/06/16-One of the best ways to ensure this happens is for the likes of you and your readers to keep sending ODF documents to government agencies and requiring that ... |
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2008/06/11-Spread ODF. W. hen it comes to Microsoft’s OOXML, it is rather easy to ... A such, as the following new posting suggests, now it the time to crow about ODF. ... |
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2008/06/10-Below we append the ODF Alliance Newsletter for June 2008. ... In a statement , the ODF Alliance greeted with skepticism Microsoft’s announcement of its ... |
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2008/06/10-For example, you’ve generated your own share of misinformation with your claims about ODF compliance that are disputed by Rob Weir. ... |
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2008/06/08-Every single negative letter on ODF received by the Malaysian standards organization was written either by Microsoft, or a Microsoft business partner or a ... |
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2008/06/08-The new TC would provide a means for software implementors and service providers to create applications that adhere to the ODF specification and are able to ... |
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2008/06/06 -“Every single negative letter on ODF received by the Malaysian standards ... Lots of anti-ODF articles made it in while others were missed, left out. ... |
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2008/06/05-In April, the Ministry said (for server DSL.sk), that ODF will be removed, because: “the main reason for change is, according to facts, the small spread of ... |
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2008/06/05-This one is about Microsoft’s treatment of ODF. In hindsight, Microsoft perhaps regrets what it did, but forgetting what had been done (and can never be ... |
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2008/06/03-The so-called IBM Open Collaboration Solution uses open document format, or ODF- based software, running on Suse Linux, a version of the Linux open-source ... |
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2008/06/03-How Microsoft Exploits, Then Insults Developing Countries · What Might Happen to ISO After Self Humiliation, Microsoft Abuse · More ODF, More FOSS, ... |
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2008/06/02-OOXML is under fire at the moment, and not just because Microsoft said it would adopt ODF [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. Earlier on we wrote about the latest appeal ... |
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2008/06/02-Microsoft has been running an anti-ODF campaign in favour of OOXML for a long long ... Always remember this: it is very important for Microsoft to make ODF ... |
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2008/06/02-If people and their authorities want standards, there’s ODF. Even Microsoft says it’ll use it in 2009. It remains to be seen if Microsoft is committed to ... |
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2008/06/01-ODF has something to do with it, but there are other factors too and ... Microsoft’s vapourware announcement (regarding ODF support) was intended to secure ... |
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2008/05/29-The worst mistake one can make is to assume that Microsoft likes ODF now that it has ‘embraced’ it (possibly to extend and extinguish it). ... |
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2008/05/29-Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? More Interesting Prebundling Moves · Quick Mention: Kevin Carmony Sued · IRC: #boycottnovell ... |
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2008/05/27-It could probably confess that ODF is better, but had it done so, it would not have managed to get ... Regardless of Microsoft’s plans for ODF, some nations, ... |
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2008/05/27-Another large migration to ODF in government. The original article is in German ... As we stressed before, ODF is essential for wider adoption of GNU/Linux. ... |
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2008/05/26-OOXML in India: Bullying of Critics, Even Professors · Microsoft Goes Viral in Kerala, the Land of Free Software · OOXML Protests Are Back, Lots of ODF FUD ... |
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2008/05/26 ... Bill Gates Makes Phone calls Again (Politics for Derailing ODF) .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/05/26-OOXML and ODF: Where Do We Go from Here with a Broken ISO? ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown ... |
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2008/05/25-ODF/OOXML Watch: Bill Gates Lobbies Behind the Scenes Again, Jason Matusow Deceives (Updated) · Playing a Standards War Using the Language of Money ... |
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2008/05/25-It’s important to fight for ODF at the moment, at all costs. AlexH said, .... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2008/05/25-If this is who is steering ODF in OASIS, I’m extremely worried. And if there is a secret working group rewriting the directives, while Microsoft and Alex ... |
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2008/05/24 ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2008/05/24-As noted in a Tectonic article, Matusow’s visit fell around the same time the South African government was approving the OpenDocument Format (ODF) for ... |
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2008/05/23 ... Their already on Microsoft’s back about the ODF implementation. ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/05/23-A looming concern is if Microsoft’s implementation of ODF within Office will ... Microsoft said it’s going to build native ODF support into Office 2007. ... |
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2008/05/23 ... Microsoft Insults the Intelligence of Malaysians, Choice of ODF .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/05/23 ... Their already on Microsoft’s back about the ODF implementation. ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/05/22-Speaking of Imaginary ODF ‘Service Packs’, Novell Has a Service Pack. As you may be aware by now, Novell has released a Service Pack for SUSE. ... |
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2008/05/22-Please note that they too expressed dreams of maintaining ODF, not just OOXML, and making the two “interoperable”. So, now Microsoft says it will join OASIS ... |
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2008/05/22-He pointed to Microsoft’s promise two years ago to support ODF, ... “Until Microsoft enables Office users to create and save in ODF by default as easily and ... |
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2008/05/21-Microsoft was more bothered about the requirement for FOSS, not ODF. .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/05/21-Regardless of the motivation, today’s announcement is indeed good news for everyone that believes in open document formats in general, and in ODF in ... |
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2008/05/20-South Africa Gets an Offer Too Hard to Refuse, Taken Over by Microsoft Lobbyists · Big Set of Shakeups for Microsoft O[OXML]ffice, ODF Rises ... |
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2008/05/18-Perhaps he was just joining Microsoft’s anti-ODF smears [1, .... Calling it ‘ disinformation’ or ‘ODF bashing’ just highlights bias and misunderstanding. ... |
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2008/05/13-OOXML/ODF Roundup: ODF is Winning, BECTA Runs Back to Microsoft's Bed ... ODF: Open Standard; OOXML: The New and Unimproved .DOC/. ... |
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2008/05/09-That’s not to say I’m defending what happened at ISO; I think both ODF and OOXML have caused trouble at ISO (ODF for being developed outside of ISO and the ... |
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2008/05/09-The testsuite exists from a lot of little documents that each show one feature in ODF. Automated testing of loading those documents will allow developers to ... |
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2008/05/08-In reality, OpenOffice.org is all about ODF. The OOXML filter/imports are intended to help with converting Microsoft’s garbled mess (Office ... |
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2008/05/07-Microsoft paid it to harm ODF; unsurprisingly, ODF supporters like Bruce Lowry left ... Indeed, so deeply entrenched in the ODF-Converter project are Novell ... |
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2008/05/07 -“I think ISO/IEC 26300 (ODF 1.0) can be compared to a neat house built on good foundations .... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2008/05/06-You’ll see in coming months more and stories to discredit ODF, by Mr. Brown, by Jesper Lund ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/05/06-The series begins with BRM Convenor Alex Brown reporting on the results of a conformance test that he applied to assess OfficeOpen 2.4.0 to ISO 26300 (ODF ... |
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2008/05/02-Is Microsoft trying even harder to push South Africa towards GNU/Linux and ODF? Bad timing. Moreover, by its own admission, Microsoft benefits from sharing ... |
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2008/04/30-Steve Ballmer on ODF What kind of a monster would bully innocent computer scientists in order to defeat an international standard (ODF) that was created to ... |
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2008/04/30-Another neo-colonialist press release from Microsoft’s CompTIA lobbying arm, this time inveighing against South Africa’s adoption of ODF as a national ... |
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2008/04/28-OpenOffice.org and ODF adoption in Malaysia - thumbs up! ... I know that there are more interesting topics to work on; after all, ODF 1.2 is not that far ... |
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2008/04/25-There is already some fairly strong momentum for ODF across the European Union and now comes a ... Seminar on ODF, targeted at municipalities in Belgium. ... |
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2008/04/25-Microsoft Launches “Get the Facts”-esque Smear Campaign Against ODF and OOXML's Critics .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/04/24-Herein you’ll find a grouping of more good news for real open standards (like ODF) and Free software. The OLPC debacle may have eclipsed the good news, ... |
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2008/04/24-A reader has just sent us a little valuable headsup about the recently-reported news of South Africa adopting ODF. His message is in italics below: ... |
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2008/04/21-The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) on Friday approved the Open Document Format (ODF) as an official national South African standard. ... |
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2008/04/20-Tried to convince people that people who actually want quality standards (not fake unimplementable specs) are just anti-OOXML because they’re pro-ODF ... |
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2008/04/19-ODF was already on the list when work on RGI was brought to a standstill last October. ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/04/18-But at least one spokesman for the ODF Alliance said it’s too early to tell. .... Despite ISO and Microsoft Apologists, ODF Rises in Europe ... |
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2008/04/16-Why run a smear campaign against ODF? Why steal Document Freedom Day? .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/04/15 ... I think ISO/IEC 26300 (ODF 1.0) can be compared to a neat house built on good foundations which is not finished; 29500 (OOXML) is a baroque ... |
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2008/04/15-Despite its admission that OOXML is poor, it thinks of ODF and OOXML as a case of ... And, please, ask SUN why didn’t they submit ODF v1.2 to ISO approval! ... |
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2008/04/12-Red Hat, like many open source companies, will continue to support ODF and encourage governments to adopt ODF instead of OOXML. ... |
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2008/04/10-OOXML Against ODF a Case of Microsoft Against the Rest of the Industry ... So out comes Microsoft, which is sponsoring anti-Linux and anti-ODF ‘propaganda’ ... |
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2008/04/10-XLS/Other · Document Formats Roundup: Why Microsoft Should Worry · Office and OOXML Under Pressure, So Microsoft Retaliates with ODF · The Big Stories ... |
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2008/04/09-A variety of reports seem to indicate that ODF , which Microsoft and its partner Novell .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/04/09-They could start the domino effect which leads to broader adoption of ODF in Europe where governments need to communicate and collaborate. ... |
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2008/04/09-Our reader adds: “It looks like the hoops to jump through for OOXML include speed bumps for open formats like ODF. Could that a main reason Apple held back ... |
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2008/04/09-Remember that Microsoft has been pretending that OOXML is about more choice while at the same time it actively discouraging vendors from implementing ODF ... |
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2008/04/09 -“He thinks that ODF is like the standard electrical outlet and OOXML is like a major ... You may also wish to know that, based on ODF/OOXML test runs, ... |
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2008/04/08-Would you be surprised if Microsoft more actively sabotaged ODF? From the very start we’ve said that OOXML was merely an anti-ODF move, not a pro-openness ... |
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2008/04/07-The new Abiword 2.6 already supports ODF, mind you, which Microsoft Office cannot (not properly anyway). What is Microsoft waiting for? ... |
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2008/04/07-Norway: ODF Must Be Used on Government Websites’ Forms ... 6. working group was created to look into harmonization of OOXML and ODF, something that many ... |
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2008/04/06-OOXML/ODF Roundup: ODF is Winning, BECTA Runs Back to Microsoft's Bed · Watch Out, OASIS · ISO Pegged Its Own Vote to Shelter Microsoft OOXML ... |
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2008/04/06-Industry experts said they were “unhappy” with the Microsoft which has almost accused the committee of being packed with “open document format (ODF) ... |
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2008/04/03 ... On the contrary, the vast majority of ODF advocates simply want fair .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/04/02-Despite ISO and Microsoft Apologists, ODF Rises in Europe · ODF for Canadian Library Association, More Application Support for ODF · The OOXML Fiasco: ... |
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2008/04/02-On the bright side of things, Croatian has just accepted ODF as a national .... If you want an open document format, pick ODF, don’t care about ISO, ... |
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2008/04/02-The ODF Alliance talks about this ludicrous situation where one company fights the entire industry to have its proprietary formats unjustifiably privileged. ... |
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2008/04/01-From this point onwards, it is worth starting to argue in favour of ODF because of its ... Microsoft can’t stop ODF from being a standard - ODF has already ... |
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2008/04/01-He tells a tale about OOXML and ODF progressing side by side and how if OOXML is approved, .... Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2008/04/01-Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? Microsoft's OOXML Dirty Tricks ... Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2008/03/30-That story is rather unique and different from IDC’s OOXML/ODF report (not to mention .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/03/30... Now Microsoft has cast doubt on the lineage of ODF everyone is a sinner ... The whole OOXML/ODF saga (and fiasco) actually go back to around ... |
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2008/03/30 ... Quick Mention: ODF Adoption Leads to More Microsoft Abuses in Croatia ..... Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2008/03/29 ... Even if OOXML wins, we’ll fight for ODF, MS wanted two standards and that’s what they are going to get, they will still have to implement ... |
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2008/03/29-Regardless of the outcome, as we have already said yesterday and Andy Updegrove now assures readers, ODF is likely to maintain its growth rates. ... |
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2008/03/27-Novell was paid a lot of money by Microsoft in order to help derail ODF. One person from Novell who was fond of ODF (bless him!) is Bruce Lowry, but he left ... |
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2008/03/27-Microsoft Launches “Get the Facts”-esque Smear Campaign Against ODF and OOXML's Critics ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/03/26-Coexistence of two very similar international standards such as ODF and OOXML is undesirable in a long term perspective. Therefore we ask JTC1 to start work ... |
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2008/03/26... Despite ISO and Microsoft Apologists, ODF Rises in Europe ... Microsoft ' Embraces' ODF: The Danger of an Inside Job Revisited · Alex Brown Again Attacks ... |
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2008/03/25-Red Hat's CEO Optimistic on ODF; OpenOffice.org Used by 1 in 4 in Brazil · Has Broken OOXML ... Some interesting links covering OpenOffice.org 3.0 and ODF ... |
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2008/03/21-With regards to ODF/OOXML, you are also encouraged to read the following ... At times like these, Microsoft would do anything to shoot down and derail ODF. ... |
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2008/03/20-InternetNZ executive director Keith Davidson continued, “ODF appears to be the suitable generic international standard. Endorsing another standard such as ... |
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2008/03/19-Microsoft will meanwhile try to sell the illusion that ODF is used almost nowhere, but it’s a lie. It’s self promotion and it’s akin to propaganda. ... |
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2008/03/17-It’s not just a matter of Microsoft gaming the system, pro-ODF or anti-OOXML articles just .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/03/17-A weeks ago I briefly mentioned Dennis Byron’s accusations against me, as well as his new pro-OOXML and anti-ODF obsession. Having realised that something ... |
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2008/03/16-Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2008/03/15-Speaking at a conference on ODF in the Netherlands last month, Beckett said that .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/03/15-It went batting for OOXML and battling against ODF, following IDC (Microsoft- sponsored ODF/OOXML studies) and lobbying arms like CompTIA and ACT. ... |
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2008/03/13-Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2008/03/12-ODF is also much simpler. It is functionally similar to OOXML, ... Microsoft could, after all, have adopted the ODF standard itself and not pursued OOXML. ... |
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2008/03/12-So a post from Patrick’s personal web site is retold on a Microsoft blog as “The ODF Editor says….”, and then the next day is sent in an email to NB’s with ... |
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2008/03/12-They pretended that they were the victim, of an autocratic ODF and a manipulative IBM. .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/03/09-Microsoft has released a plugin to add ODF support in office. ... Microsoft might, after all, give the impression that ODF is inherently broken and ... |
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2008/03/09-It also fights against ODF, fights for software patents (along with the BSA [2]) , flings mud at the GNU GPL and attacks just about everything else that ... |
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2008/03/08 ... Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF translator for .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/03/06-For those who thought that ODF adoption had slown down, consider the fact that a county in Germany has just begun adopting OpenOffice.org, ... |
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2008/03/03-Denmark plans to have a third party evaluate the decision to use both ODF and OOXML in February 2009, which could result in a change of strategy, ... |
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2008/03/03 ... New OOXML Fiasco: Germany and Canada Propose Microsoft as Editor for ODF- OOXML Convergence ... Despite ISO and Microsoft Apologists, ODF Rises in Europe ... |
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2008/03/03-The reader contacted us to say (in relation to the above): “Is ODF ... A post will come shortly to explain why Microsoft ought to hurry up and support ODF. ... |
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2008/03/01 ... ODF Keeps Winning; No Wonder Microsoft Went Corrupt Against It ... Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2008/03/01-ODF Keeps Winning; No Wonder Microsoft Went Corrupt Against It ... Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2008/03/01-Spread ODF. Moments ago we brought to you Tim Bray’s views on the BRM (keyphrase “complete, .... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2008/02/29-The European Commission and its member states have been mulling a mandate that all government documents be created in the Open Document Format (ODF), ... |
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2008/02/29-I know very little about Jesper, but his Web site, which is purely run on Microsoft technologies, has quite a bit of anti-ODF and pro-OOXML content on the ... |
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2008/02/28 ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2008/02/25-Dissecting Microsoft's OOXML/ODF Strategy :: A look back at some of the methods Microsoft .... Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2008/02/24-It was whittling away at the ODF articles: dilute, remove redundant parts, repeat until .... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2008/02/23-ODF/OOXML: Summary of the Latest News and BRM Reports · Recent blog reactions; FSDaily ... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2008/02/21-Microsoft believes that ODF is an elegant standard, which seems to contradict the ... Remember that ODF is already the one and only international standard. ... |
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2008/02/20-The Australian press is confirming this now while ODF advocates are calling for Australian .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/02/19 ... Now that thanks to ODF we are on the verge of not needing them anymore. .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/02/19 -“They desperately need to stop the adoption of ISO26300-ODF by governments and public institutions…”They desperately need to stop the adoption of ... |
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2008/02/19 ... Here is another corny new article where Microsoft pretends that it wants peace and harmony, having snubbed and rejected ODF when it was ... |
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2008/02/19-For those naive enough to take Microsoft’s word (or Word), the ODF Alliance has compiled a .... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2008/02/18 ... Abuse: The Morning After · Despite ISO and Microsoft Apologists, ODF Rises in Europe ... Microsoft 'Embraces' ODF: The Danger of an Inside Job Revisited ... |
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2008/02/17 ... ODF is not OpenOffice.org, in spite of Microsoft’s attempts to make it look ... OpenOffice.Org 2.4 Coming Shortly, Should ODF Come to LSB? ... |
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2008/02/16-Google searches for “ODF” and “OpenDocument” or even “noooxml” are now returning sponsored links with phrases like “Learn the truth about the standard for ... |
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2008/02/16-Why is his/her blog being cited by anti-ODF and pro-OOXML posters in USENET? ... The messages are typically anti-ODF rather than defensive of OOXML, ... |
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2008/02/15-On the downside: twice, I mentioned ODF vs. OOXML in conversations with people, .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/02/14-I wonder how many ODF alliance members will be present in Geneva, and especially how many ..... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/02/14-Last month we showed that Microsoft was willing to bend ODF’s way. ... If ODF is made mandatory by public institutions, probably the biggest Microsoft ... |
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2008/02/02-It was an ODF row of smears with the Burton Group (Microsoft partner), questionably-bribed journalists, and IDC (Microsoft-commissioned) publishing their ... |
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2008/02/01-ODF/OOXML: Summary of the Latest News and BRM Reports · Microsoft May Have Bribed India for ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/02/25-There are not many articles about ODF and OOXML at the moment because the meeting in Geneva .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/02/22-http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/05/is-the-open-document-format-odf-now-dead/. WordPerfect? OOXML? Since when is WordPerfect a friend of Microsoft (think ... |
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2008/02/22-It’s deja vu all over again, just as we’ve already seen in ODF plugins when they fell victim ... Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2008/01/31-We’re also agreed that extending ODF outside of the standards process is not a ... So the obvious solution is to extend ODF within the standards process. ... |
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2008/01/30-ODF is not OpenOffice, but OpenOffice helps ODF adoption ... Here is some more encouraging news which is a sign of greater adoption of ODF. ... |
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2008/01/29-Several months ago Sam also wrote the article “Shills Abound”, which warns about the type of stuff that we find in OOXML/ODF studies from IDC (funded by ... |
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2008/01/27-Having attacked Google and having attacked ODF, the Microsoft mouthpiece known as the “Burton Group” has now moved on the attacking VMWare, essentially by ... |
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2008/01/27-Our reader asked: “How does that work and is that how the ODF news search is spammed with anti-ODF material?” Whether there is an automated filtering ... |
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2008/01/23-Critics of ODF, most of whom are paid in one way or another by Microsoft, ... Why Schools Must Embrace ODF and FOSS; Healthy Boost for KOffice and ... |
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2008/01/23-Novell still supports its wallet; it doesn’t support ODF. Bad Novell ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/01/23-ODF format As you can see, no single company is responsible for founding the ... The world’s ISO-approved Office format already exists: it’s called ODF. ... |
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2008/01/23 ... back to ODF. That’s what the MS boosters seem to be trying to avoid. ... As far as ODF vs OOXML… who is portraying ODF as “anti-Microsoft”? ... |
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2008/01/23-The article also describes ODF as an OpenOffice format. Novell is mentioned among supporters of OOXML. It’s a bizarre world we live in, isn’t it? ... |
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2008/01/18-If it utters something which can be perceived as ODF endorsement, ... If Microsoft support ODF as its native format (which is what your blog post is about, ... |
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2008/01/18-In some ways, [the Burton Group’s] O’Kelly and Creese’s analysis hinges on this inevitability, implying that the ODF camp might be better off lying down in ... |
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2008/01/18-It ought to be clear by now that Croatia adopted ODF, but back in November we showed that Microsoft could face lawsuits for its OOXML-related corruptions, ... |
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2008/01/16-It shamelessly portrays all support of ODF as “anti-Microsoft”, Additionally, ... “I don’t believe its true that ODF could not, with a reasonable amount of ... |
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2008/01/16 -“I don’t believe its true that ODF could not, with a reasonable amount of ... Given that it’s either OOXML of ODF (CDF is out of the questions and I’ve ... |
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2008/01/16-In Malaysia, ODF has already won after careful and prolonged consideration ... While the battle between proponents of OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office ... |
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2008/01/14-By someone who is not pro-ODF we are told: “How any firm could advise ... According to Stephen Walli, Microsoft might just implement ODF at the end, ... |
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2008/01/13-Red Hat's CEO Optimistic on ODF; OpenOffice.org Used by 1 in 4 in Brazil · Microsoft OOXML ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2008/01/11 -(The current standard is ODF 1.0, formally known as ISO/IEC 26300:2006). OOXML is unneeded and only harmful. Why did MS embark on this deliberate departure ... |
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2008/01/10-It is important that BECTA speaks out more loudly about ODF, especially as we ... Stephen Walli once argued that Microsoft’s support for ODF is inevitable. ... |
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2008/01/08-Fortunately, ODF is making excellent progress and Andy Updegrove reassures that ODF is past ... Some interesting links covering OpenOffice.org 3.0 and ODF ... |
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2008/01/05-Evil that Ruins Economies · OOXML Neglected by National Archives, Microsoft's ISO Capturers Still Fight ODF · Al Gillen (IDC) Once Again Throws FUD at Free ... |
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2008/01/04-Then ask yourself two questions: do we need ODF to ensure that we can open documents in the .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office ? ... |
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2008/01/02-Doesn’t ODF seem like a hugely attractive option all of a sudden? .... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details … |
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2007/12/31-Like with ODF, it’s important to spread such files around the Web. .... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2007/12/31-Unlike the current ISO digital document standard ODF (Open Document Format) .... Mind Malaysia’s sudden and unexpected reaction to ODF once Microsoft got ... |
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2007/12/30-The ODF Alliance has just unleashed a document [PDF] which boasts increasing ... ODF format The list is impressive, but it also seems quite partial. ... |
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2007/12/24-Although these translators are intended to work with OpenOffice.org, ODF is not ... This subtle mistake can be deceiving and be used against ODF, so Novell ... |
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2007/12/22-When Sun makes an OOXML converter to ODF, they are a company and got the legal team to handle the licensing issues. I suggest you yourself, since you don’t ... |
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2007/12/28-Brett Winterford Had Kool-Aid in Redmond (and Then Came ODF FUD) · Watch Out. Moonlight/Silverlight Knock on Your Door. All Your Media Mustn't Belongs to ... |
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2007/12/21-Do remember that other states have already considered ODF and possibly continue to consider ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2007/12/21-When enlightened IT managers in enterprises advocate ODF, the Microsoft ... It is unlikely that Microsoft will offer native ODF support in Microsoft Office. ... |
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2007/12/18-Later on you’ll find Microsoft bragging about superior performance (in terms of efficiency) in OOXML, as it already did before to discredit ODF (in ... |
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2007/12/18-ISO's Self Abuse: The Morning After · New ISO: Denial and Damage Control, as Standard · No Regrets at Microsoft After Abuses, ODF Still Snubbed · ODF/OOXML ... |
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2007/12/17-ODF format What is sometimes referred to as the Microsoft “talking points” has an impact on OpenDocument format’s reputation and the understanding (or lack ... |
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2007/12/17-What role do these Apple deals play when it comes to ODF/OOXML, if any at all? ... More ODF for Macs, Trouble for the Already-Embattled ISO · OOXML Cover-up ... |
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2007/12/15-OOXML is just a tool for fighting ODF. It’s the same proprietary (and partly ... On what basis do these patents cover OOXML, but not ODF, given both are XML ... |
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2007/12/14-Steve Ballmer on ODF The item is worth reading as a whole, especially for context. ... In the end, Microsoft will need to implement ODF natively. ... |
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2007/12/11-ODF format Last night we saw Microsoft pulling its usual routine in Holland. This country seems to have been corrupted by Microsoft’s OOXML back in August ... |
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2007/12/10-If, during the Term, the Translator Project releases an updated version of its translator to reflect a new version of the relevant ODF or Open XML ... |
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2007/12/06-That’s what ODF advocates wanted and gently asked for. ODF ‘civil wars’ harm everyone, as demonstrated by a certain Foundation. Here is the goal that united ... |
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2007/12/04-ODF format All of this was expected (and even scheduled). Just as Miguel de Icaza, .... Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2007/12/04-Steve Ballmer on ODF How many times can a misleading and uninteresting story be repeated? .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2007/12/03-OASIS ODF TC mailing list archives are public for anyone to read ... The results of ODF’s ballot in ISO are public, including all of the NB comments ... |
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2007/11/30-On the first of this month, after reading about the original dispute between ODF advocates and representatives from the GNOME community, ... |
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2007/11/30-When several highly-visible GNOME people openly make negative statements about ODF and also make statements like “Office Open XML should be and blessed as ... |
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2007/11/30-Thanks, Sam, for reminding us that no ODF file has even been served behind a firewall. .... Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2007/11/29 -“Novell insists that it supports ODF, yet it sends a speaker to this ... Let is be clear that OOXML is against ODF in the sense that it’s designed to ... |
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2007/11/28 ... How’s about this: keep up the pressure for MS to put and ODF reader/writer in office? Seems a lot more interesting. ... |
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2007/11/28-How well is ODF and OOXML supported in different languages? .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2007/11/27-France is making the strongest move to ODF and its native office suite, OpenOffice. Nearly half a million government employees are being switched to ... |
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2007/11/26-The [GNOME Foundation] group also argues that neither OOXML nor ODF will serve ... Both ODF and OOXML are very heavily influenced by their implementation ... |
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2007/11/24-Note Mathematica is claiming full import/export for ODF. ... Even if not, it’s another application on the list of applications that support ODF. ... |
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2007/11/23-It highlights conflicting roles and views in the ODF/OOXML debate, which divide Novell and GNOME, respectively. BoycottNovell.com is actually cited by ... |
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2007/11/21-The more relevant writeup to consider here comes from Rob Weir, who speaks about PDF and explains possible relationships with ODF, e.g.: ... |
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2007/11/21-Accessibility FUD has repeatedly been used to discredit ODF. ... Whatever you are told and whatever you read about ODF and accessibility, be aware that ... |
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2007/11/15-More on the latest beta of Symphony: IBM’s Lotus Symphony Continues ODF Push ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2007/11/12-Like South Africa Adopts ODF, German Foreign Office comes out in favor of ODF and there are various articles going over how Holland and Belgium are ... |
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2007/11/09-CDF is not a contrary story to ODF; it is about taking on Sharepoint at the hub ... CDF is very important but it does not conflict with ODF — it complements ... |
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2007/10/31-Even Germany is leaning towards ODF, as we pointed out yesterday. Let’s not forget Russia. ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2007/10/31-Mr. Yadava declared ODF to be a way out of the current file format chaos that went hand-in-hand with a high risk of data loss. In other parts of India too ... |
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2007/10/28-In total, there are now more than two dozen ODF-supporting text, spreadsheet, and presentation applications announced in the past three months ... |
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2007/10/21-We mentioned a forum thread in the past — a thread that indicated Leopard would support ODF. It has just been made more official. ... |
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2007/10/16-ODF, New OpenOffice.org off to a Great Start, Despite Novell's 'Sabotage' Attempts ... ODF Keeps Winning; No Wonder Microsoft Went Corrupt Against It ... |
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2007/10/16-It may be news to some — not to the ODF Community, certainly — that we at the OpenDocument Foundation have been displeased with the direction of ODF ... |
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2007/10/07-As long as ODF is the document format, not Novell ODF, or Sun ODF, .... Red Hat's CEO Optimistic on ODF; OpenOffice.org Used by 1 in 4 in Brazil ... |
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2007/10/07-Microsoft supports the open source ODF Translator project on SourceForge. Sun has made their own ODF Plugin 1.1 for MS Office available for download. ... |
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2007/09/19-Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will be the ... “Some of these nations have adopted strong pro-ODF policies. ... |
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2007/09/12-When ODF was made an ISO standard, Microsoft had to react quickly as certain governments have procurement policies which prefer ISO standards. ... |
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2007/09/11-It’s bizarre to say the least, since ODF is already an ISO standard document format. ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2007/09/05-OpenDocument format (ODF) has just gotten a big boost and Bob Sutor welcomes the development by reminding us that ODF is about the future, whereas OOXML is ... |
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2007/09/05 ... On the Novell OOXML-ODF translator, here is some straight facts : ... A week or so later, Microsoft announces the Novell ODF-OOXML converter ... |
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2007/09/02-By the way, if you are by any chance trying to figure out Microsoft’s policy toward standards, particularly in the context of ODF-EOXML, that same Microsoft ... |
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2007/08/31-ODF vs. OOXML: Microsoft Has Mastered the Art of Unfair Play. The adoption of a standard is supposed to be an open, transparent process. ... |
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2007/08/31-Microsoft Offers Favours for OOXML Support · Quick Mention: The Programmer's Advantage in ODF, OOXML Coverage from Hungary · Novell's Dirty Little Secret: ... |
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2007/08/30-Spread ODF A while ago, I was attempting to formulate and visualize the sorts of strategies that Microsoft might be chalking on its boards. ... |
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2007/08/24-It is among those that combat ODF. Microsoft is conveniently using Apple as a negotiation card in their ‘political’ debating technique (it turns technical ... |
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2007/08/20-It’s probable that ODF / OOXML-compatibility won’t be realized. .... They also claimed to be sure there’s things to fix in ODF also. (….) ... |
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2007/08/17-They try to flip votes on matters such as Linux, ODF, and copyrights. ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2007/08/15-The most recent win was in Malaysia, so there is certainly some momentum going for ODF. In fact, this Friday IBM will release an ODF-based applications ... |
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2007/08/11 -“NIST believes that ODF and OOXML can co-exist as international standards ... Among yesterday’s OOXML/ODF roundup we also mentioned another important factor ... |
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2007/08/04-From an purely ODF agenda, Novell turned its attention to the creation of OOXML translators .... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2007/08/04-It’s worth remembering that in response to the proposed adoption of ODF, Microsoft’s government affairs director, Brian Burke, promoted an amendment to a ... |
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2007/08/03-You never fail to surprise and I truly hope that the ODF Alliance/TC will take ... The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance) has hailed New York for ... |
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2007/08/03-The latest victim of this illegal tactic appears to be the ODF plugin for Microsoft Office. How convenient! Especially now that OOXML fails to gain traction ... |
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2007/08/02-The slower-than-planned adoption of ODF in Massachusetts appears to have ... What does this portend for ODF in Massachusetts, and what does it tell us about ... |
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2007/07/29 ... ODF for Canadian Library Association, More Application Support for ODF ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2007/07/27-Anonymous reader submits: “I read with concern one of your latest post about the FUD against ODF that is being spread by Microsoft shills, and about the ... |
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2007/07/27-Does this not remind you of Novell, which neglected ODF and began working on OOXML .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2007/07/26-Rather, it is the open standards on which the ODF is based that are most ... They say migration is expensive, and even argue that adoption of the ODF will ... |
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2007/07/24-Be aware of that fact that Novell’s work on an ‘ODF killer’ and a ‘Flash killer’ is only the beginning. It won’t be long before Novell will further assist ... |
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2007/07/23-If the record is in the OOXML format, then ODF document users would need a converter to .... Microsoft's ODF tactics are shown using some more evidence. ... |
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2007/07/19-supplied by a company which cannot even manage to add a proper ODF ... ODF for Canadian Library Association, More Application Support for ODF ... |
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2007/07/18-ODF isn’t perfect, but it is much closer to what is needed. It uses common standards that .... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2007/07/16-Microsoft maintains that while it would have been easy to support the Open Document Format (ODF) natively, it had to move to MS-OOXML because this was the ... |
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2007/07/10-Please point to a specific blog post where OOXML is recommended over ODF or ... As ODF increases in popularity use OOXML can be completely phased out. ... |
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2007/07/09-Given ODF exists, and that PDF is already a de-facto standard for electronic document ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2007/07/07-Much though I prefer the OpenOffice “Open Document Format” (ODF) data format for documents, ... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2007/06/27-The ODF Alliance has posted some new documents, which you can find listed here: .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2007/06/12-You might still recall a long discussion which contained plenty of anti- ODF lobbying examples. Among the outcomes, two CIOs in Massachusetts lost their job ... |
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2007/05/23-Although Novell and Apple sit in the MSOOXML TC45 at Ecma and provide “support” in creating translators to and from ODF, I dont see them adopting MSOOXML as ... |
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2007/03/24-the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong ... Microsoft offers schools in Mass. free software [to stop ODF adoption] ... |
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2007/02/02-The CleverAge plugin has been in development since October 2005, and the infrastructure itself is taken from an old ODF plugin made by ... |
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2007/01/31 ... Microsoft released OOXML in a defensive move to crush ODF. ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2007/01/27-It shows that, despite Microsoft’s claims that ODF support would make ... A lot more was said about ODF support in Microsoft Office just several days ago. ... |
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2007/01/24-The articles are extensive, covering the history of the ODF/OOXML arguments, including Massachusett’s open file format policy, as well as technical and ... |
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2007/01/22-MA Governor-Elect Names MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist to Technology Advisory Group .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2006/12/27-what have we done? we’ve taken open xml from Microsoft… worked on the translation engines of that with ODF, we’ve now built open xml support into… a version ... |
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2006/12/17-What to Make of Nokia... Regarding Licenses, Patents, and Formats Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2006/12/08 -“ODF is about the future, Open XML is about the past. .... ODF, New OpenOffice. org off to a Great Start, Despite Novell's 'Sabotage' Attempts ... |
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2006/12/05-Of course, that is because while Corel will support both ODF and DOCX and so will Novell OpenOffice, Microsoft Office will not feature native support for ... |
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2006/12/04 -(The default will be ODF, they claim, but note that the subheading mentions OpenXML instead .... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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2006/12/04-As a result of this mishap, Microsoft will continue to offer ODF support as a .... Nokia's stance on the GPL, DRM and ODF in some more details ... |
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2006/11/30-Corel has just announced that it would support OpenDocument (ODF) format, as well as Microsoft’s competing format. OpenOffice, on the other hand, ... |
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2006/11/20-While Novell remains committed to ODF , as indicated below, Novell may have also ‘contaminated’ OpenOffice in the process of development. ... |
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2008/09-The ODF workshop, which was alluded to just moments ago, is said to have ... Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer, Sun Microsystems, examines ODF and the ... |
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2008/01-Steve Ballmer on ODF While the shenanigans are behind closed door doing their thing we shall spend a week showing the reasons for mistrust. ... |
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2008/07-Now, when it looks like the world really does want ODF instead of OOXML, surrogates are sending a dual message — first, that ODF has won, so OOXML isn’t ... |
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2007/01-It shows that, despite Microsoft’s claims that ODF support would make Office ... Even though it is true that the ODF Plugin for MS Office does only exist in ... |
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2007/09-Speaking of ODF and OOXML, you can send your thoughts to Microsoft’s press. ..... OpenOffice and Symphony are compatible with the OpenDocument format (ODF), ... |
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2007/10-Even Germany is leaning towards ODF, as we pointed out yesterday. Let’s not forget Russia. .... Germany Leans Towards ODF, GNOME Receives Public Correction ... |
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2007/11-It tried to express support for ODF, but it achieved quite the opposite thing by ... OK, OK, I know ODF would probably be a better choice, but there are big ... |
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Without making a press release or public announcement the Swedish Standards Institute has formally approved ODF 1.0 as a national standard. ... |
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I asked him if he thinks that ISO approval of OOXML will drive implementors and adopters away from ODF. He has seen no evidence of such a trend and argued ... |
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More Wins for ODF, Another Potential Loss for ISO’s Reputation ... In the mean time, seeing the acceptance of ODF is encouraging and those who adopt ODF are ... |
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In fact, some time next year, even Microsoft will have surrendered to ODF, thus confirming that the real international standard is growing dominant and ... |
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ODF, New OpenOffice.org off to a Great Start, Despite Novell’s ‘Sabotage’ Attempts ... ODF is rapidly gaining widespread acceptance and is also supported by ... |
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ODF comes complete with many of the necessary features, ... At the ODF Workshop last week, a number of the delegates were asking about the right way to ... |
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Speaking at a conference on ODF in the Netherlands last month, Beckett said ... In light of the new set of documents from the ODF Alliance, also consider ... |
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AbiWord also supports Open Document Format (ODF), for completely open ..... The debate on ODF versus OOXML continues to rage, with ISO offering to take on ... |
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ODF comes complete with many of the necessary features, .... At the ODF Workshop last week, a number of the delegates were asking about the right way to ... |
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ODF is a simpler format that is easier to process, and less tied to legacy issues found in ... Open source office software is available for ODF formats. ... |
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MS-OOXML was 100% a reaction to ODF, their tactics to use ECMA and the ..... ODF is mostly in the hands of OASIS at the moment, so ISO’s (and ECMA’s) ... |
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The Fight Against GNU/Linux and ODF in South Africa ... As part of the fight against ODF and Free software, Microsoft also approaches young people with ... |
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ODF is mostly in the hands of OASIS at the moment, so ISO’s (and ECMA’s) ... Quick Mention: Microsoft’s Attempted Hijack of ODF Now in ‘The Press’ ... |
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ODF Keeps Winning; No Wonder Microsoft Went Corrupt Against It ... The ODF Alliance previously listed 14 national governments and eight provincial ... |
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As South Africa prepares to host the second annual ODF conference next week, ... In better news, countries that adopt ODF will be meeting in South Africa to ... |
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One memorable example of such technical sabotage is Microsoft’s action against DR-DOS, although ODF might be another example [1, 2, 3], perhaps even ... |
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I call it a takeover attempt of ODF, according to my reading of the ... I gather they think they can do a better job of maintaining ODF than OASIS. ... |
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At the ODF Workshop last week, a number of the delegates were asking about the right ... Obviously ODF offers a baseline file format that promises long-term ... |
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Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... NO matter one’s point of view, it’s clear that ODF is not going away. ... |
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ODF, New OpenOffice.org off to a Great Start, Despite Novell’s ‘Sabotage’ ...... There is also this free Java library for manipulation of ODF files. ... |
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Glyn Moody suggests that Amazon should be pressured to support ODF on the Kindle . ... Maybe time to start a campaign for ODF support on the Kindle… ... |
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ODF awards will be coming soon. ODF is mostly in the hands of OASIS at the ... In better news, countries that adopt ODF will be meeting in South Africa to ... |
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OpenDocment format (ODF) does not have a marketing force or department behind ... It is undeniable that ODF is becoming widely recognized as an industry ... |
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ODF comes complete with many of the necessary features, ... ODF, New OpenOffice. org off to a Great Start, Despite Novell’s ‘Sabotage’ Attempts ... |
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Last night Pamela Jones wrote: “Here’s how my brain processes this [Rob Weir on ODF translation]: the OOXML folks are deliberately trying to increase the ... |
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ODF More Widely Adopted; Microsoft Wants to Destroy It, Kindly ... I think Microsoft sees a way to make some money with ODF, but it wants to change it to ... |
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It was published in noooxml.org and it speaks about the latest trick that involves anti-ODF manipulation on the World Wide Web. Here is the gist: ... |
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Burton Group, the firm behind Microsoft’s anti-Google and anti-ODF ’studies’ [1, 2, 3, .... More Wins for ODF, Another Potential Loss for ISO’s Reputation ... |
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It is time to disseminate the idea that OOXML is dead and that ODF is still ... But the resistance of Microsoft to ODF and its OOXML campaign is also very ... |
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Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ..... ODF, New OpenOffice.org off to a Great Start, Despite Novell’s ‘Sabotage’ Attempts ... |
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It was published in noooxml.org and it speaks about the latest trick that involves anti-ODF manipulation on the World Wide Web. Here is the gist: ... |
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ODF More Widely Adopted; Microsoft Wants to Destroy It, Kindly ... I think Microsoft sees a way to make some money with ODF, but it wants to change it to ... |
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ODF is supported by dozens of applications from many different vendors (whom ... ODF is not to be confused or seen as analogous to OpenOffice.org |
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ODF comes complete with many of the necessary features, yet it is not based on a single ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |
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The police has already adopted a great deal of it, a very large pharmacy chain adopted GNU/Linux, and ODF is already the national standard. ... |
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(The default will be ODF, they claim, but note that the subheading mentions OpenXML instead. ... Does Microsoft Try to Conquer ODF to Sell Microsoft Office? ... |