Excellent start. I await the next installment with bated monitor. At some point, you might wish to include some background on the origin and history of open formats in general. Back in the day, open formats were a given, so how did we get to proprietary formats? Why were people willing to accept them? and so on.
Excellent comments. Why don’t you log into his site, and post them there? If you don’t wish to, let me know, and I may do it.
Here’s the actual latest news, other than Obama’s support of ODF:
OpenDocument group closes down
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=E3E72928-C7CE-451B-9E30-E1D9434FE05A
The OpenDocument Foundation, set up in 2002 to advance the development and adoption of open document formats for office productivity applications, has shut up shop.
Last month, the Foundation said it was withdrawing its support for the OpenDocument Format, and would instead back the Compound Document Format