Jean Goffinet of Clever Age has a post intriguingly titled ''Are we traitors or mercenaries?'' on the ODF Converter team blog describing a lunch appointment with two ''emissaries'' from OpenOffice.org and OASIS. He explains how after the project was announced he reached out to both organisations, as he says :- After the project launching, I ...

I made a comment at an event in Brussels and quite a few people have asked for more information so I thought I'd post here. I mentioned that in my opinion, Sun were completely aware that ODF wasn't sufficiently defined to support spreadsheet interoperability as long ago as February 2005 and that the realpolitik inside OASIS was to take advantage ...

Here's June's update (see also May's and April's) from the Ecma International Technical Committee (TC45) which is working to establish an international open standard for Office Open XML File Formats (as described in the TC45 program of work) :- This week (June 19-21), the committee held its fourth face-to-face meeting in Sapporo, ...