Comments on: A Review of the Wikipedia Article on ODF

By: Karl Best

Karl Best — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:27:00 +0000

re: #2 and #10, even more strictly speaking, the spec was *further* developed by OASIS after starting elseqwhere. The spec was first developed by a company called StarOffice which was then bought by Sun. Sun then contributed the spec to OASIS for further development by the OASIS Open Office XML TC (see the original Call For Participation) at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200211/msg00001.html)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:44:00 +0000

I have to say that this, and the related one that came before it, are by far the most balanced posts I have read on the topic.

I wish more people would concentrate on the real flaws of both specs instead of just the flag waving.

By: orcmid

orcmid — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:27:00 +0000

Oops, the second item in my comment applies to #30, not #29.

By: orcmid

orcmid — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:08:00 +0000

Nice work.

#21. Yes, the ODMA reference makes no sense at all. It seems completely disconnected from everything else there and ODMA is completely indifferent to document format (although repositories that the little middleware connects might take advantage of open-format properties).

#29. Not quite. There are other uses of formulas in ODF and they use the same approach (fortunately) and currently suffer from being underspecified in the same way.

I like how you look at these with your technical-editor's hat on.

By: hAl

hAl — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:22:00 +0000

I have added in the fisrt few points of your suggestions. Might add more later if I have time.