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http://idippedut.dk/post/2007/12/Software-politics-Hyprocrisy-101.aspx
Au delà de l'humour de ce post d'un blog Danois, la passe d'arme qui s'en suit dans les commentaires entre Gary Edwards (ex OpenDocument foundation ) et Rob Weir d'IBM est très instructive.
Morceaux choisis des commentaires de Garry Edwards:
It is true that the OpenDocument Foundation had nothing whatsoever to do with ODF 1.0 – ISO 26300. But then, neither did IBM, Novell, Google, Intel, Oracle, the OpenDocument Fellowship, and the OpenDocument Alliance. These entities all joined (or were formed) after the April 30th, 2005 OASIS approval of ODF 1.0. This version was then sent to ISO with the only corrections being those relating to errata. ODF 1.0 actually was approved by the OASIS ODF TC in December of 2004! The January – March 15th period of 2005 was spent on public and general membership review of the specification.
There is an IBM caveat. A very clever caveat.
Interestingly, IBM joined OASIS ODF two days prior to the final vote period. IBM joined the ODF technical Committee on April 14th, 2005, right before the final vote on ODF 1.0 which took place between April 16th and April 30th of 2005. Two days! No meetings. No work. No contributions. Zero participation. But oh what a motherload of media coverage IBM continues to reap.
The May 2005 OASIS Press Release of course featured IBM as one of the primary sponsors of ODF 1.0. Amazing what two days of membership without any work effort can get you. Cynics would of course suggest that IBM waited until ODF success was pretty much certain and ducked in, barely under the wire, to claim credit.
On September 20th of 2007, Rob Weir arranged to hold a day long <i>Interoperability WorkShop</i> at the OpenOffice Barcelona, Spain conference. The event totally bombed, to the extent that Rob Weir was threatening people not to talk about the disaster (i have the a copy of the eMail he sent out 
. Everyone whose ever tried to exchange ODF documents between OpenOffice, Lotus Symphony, Google Docs, and KOffice knows, ODF has some serious interop problems. That Rob Weir would hold a workshop and put these interop difficulties on public display i thought would be a good thing. How else do you fix the problems of ODF interop except to confront them head on? Shutting down the public comments though, as Rob did, is the equivalent of trying to erect an ODF Potemkin Village at the very time these interop problems must be solved.
IBM has to discredit us because anything that damages ODF or helps MS-OOXML hurts the IBM business plan of lobbying for legislative mandates requiring the rip out and replace of MSOffice. The thing is, we don't care much for the IBM business plan. Our focus is entirely on the needs of a marketplace trying to break the iron grip of relentless and determined monopolist. If CDF+ can get the job done, and ODF can't, then the decision is easy. Both are credible open standards. Why not use the one that can solve the problem at hand – the non disruptive migration of 550 million MSOffice desktops to a free and open web platform future? Besides, the ODF <> CDF+ conversion is a marriage made in heaven. Even without the da Vinci MSOffice conversion to CDF+, the ODF conversion must be pursued without hesitation. ODF documents have to be made web ready to be relevant to the future, and this is an easy way of perfecting that web readiness.
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