“The Open Document Format Alliance has released a paper refuting
the recent Burton Group’s Report on ODF and MSOOXML. I asked for
and received permission to publish it here on Groklaw. The ODF
Alliance response takes 18 points from the Burton Group’s Report
and answers them point by point. I think you will enjoy it. And I
have a few impressions of my own to share with you, and then you
can tell me what you think of it all.“I put Erwin Tenhumberg’s rebuttal in News Picks earlier and
Ryan Paul’s ars technica piece on the Burton Group’s Report, both
of which were critical of it, but this is by far the most
comprehensive response…”