Open Life

Sam Hiser is one of the original founders of the OpenOffice.org community, he has been available to the community since early 2000-2001. He has also co write one of the very first OpenOffice.org books. Using of course, OpenOffice.org.

Now he launches a great in depth analysis of OpenDocument format and the OpenXML format from Microsoft. He goes into topics such as true openness, study of the components and legacy dependency. This is a great topic that also has much to do with a recent interview by Gary Edwards at IT Conversations.

Very good read to jump on board with what's going on at the Open Standard camp.

http://fussnotes.typepad.com/Achieving_Openness_1point0.html