Reader Beware as ODF Coverage Increases
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There have been a number of stories published on-line in recent days that warrant both comment and qualification. That's both good news and bad news.
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The good news is that more and more journalists are being attracted to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) story, largely because of the increasing credibility of the threat to Microsoft Office that ODF poses. The bad news is that some of these articles have been poorly researched and/or reported. The result is that more care is now needed when reading the news than was required a short while ago when only a small number of reporters were covering the story, each of whom had taken the time to acquire a good understanding of what was involved, and had the chronology of events and the facts in focus. In this entry, I'll look at some of the significant news that has broken in the past week, and highlight the ways in which I believe it has, and hasn't, been accurately reported on-line. Let's start with one of the big news stories that emerged yesterday: the first public, pre-release demonstration by IBM of some of the ODF-supporting features of its new "Hannover" release of Lotus Notes....
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