Getting the (Share)Point About Document Formats
The OpenDocument Foundation was formed in 2005, with the mission "to provide a conduit for funding and support for individual contributors to participate in ODF development" at the standards body OASIS. So, at a time when backing for the ODF format seems to be gaining in strength around the world, eyebrows were naturally raised when Sam Hiser, the Foundation's Vice President and Director of Business Affairs, wrote on October 16 that it was no longer supporting ODF:
We at the OpenDocument Foundation have been displeased with the direction of ODF development this year. We find that ODF is not the open format with the open process we thought it was or originally intended it to be.
Microsoft's Jason Matusow naturally allowed himself a little Schadenfreude, Mary Jo Foley waxed apocalyptic, speculating that "the ODF camp might unravel before Microsoft's rival Office Open XML (OOXML) comes up for final international vote early next year," and IBM's Rob Weir provided a characteristically witty point-by-point criticism of the group's reasoning behind its move, dubbing the OpenDocument Foundation "two guys without a garage", in a nod to the "mythology of Silicon Valley" and its history of "two guys in a garage founding great enterprises."
Meanwhile, in an attempt to understand what was going on, standards expert Andy Updegrove tried applying Occam's Razor:
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