Re: [office] Fw: [odf-adoption] sxw-odt comparison

["David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>]

Rob Weir asked:
> >>> I've been asked for a comparison between ODF and the legacy file format
> >>> of OpenOffice.org (the .sx* one). Do you have any resources that I could
> >>> use? Perhaps such a comparison does already exist?

Go to "Is OpenDocument an Open Standard? Yes!" at:
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/opendocument-open.html
and look at the "No domination" section.  It lists some of the changes made to OpenDocument after the base document was submitted to the standards body.

I don't bother to list all of the changes.  The point of that paper was to show how a REAL standards process works, namely, you start with a base document, then various people propose SUBSTANTIVE changes that change how it works for the betterment of all.  In this case, OpenDocument shows this very nicely - many different people made changes, so that all implementors had to make some real changes.... and all agree that the result was better than the original.

--- David A. Wheeler


> >> My incomplete, out-of-date (and probably too technical) list has:...

That's a nice list, and I probably didn't include all of them.  I may add some of these points, they're nice ones (though it'd be nice to know who proposed them!).  Anyone know of any errors in that list, before I try to add some of them?

--- David A. Wheeler