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Thursday, September 29th, 2005

The birth of a standard; a new star is born

Ever wondered what happened way back when the first group rolled out TCP and the protocol was picked up by others, gathered a following, and eventually became the de facto standard? Well watch what’s happening today with OpenDocument. It will only be a few years and everyone will be trading .odf files!

Corel now has OpenDocument plans coming out. In all fairness Corel was a leader in developing the standard and so supporting OpenDocument shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. eWeek, however, found it quite newsworthy - and so do I. Now let’s just get WordPerfect Office support back on Linux again!

The key to a Linux desktop future = Adobe/Macromedia + Corel + Canon (ok, so I’m selfish in needing decent drivers for my photo printer)