Response from da Vinci

The short version is that The Register got lost in the acronym alphabet soup; da Vinci still lives and breathes. It's just that we will no longer try to hammer OpenDocument into a set of market requirements outside the ODF charter and scope of design. That ended in April of 2007. What we're doing now is refactoring da Vinci to support the W3C's Compound Document Formats ("CDF"). It's work, it's fun, and it's truly liberating.

Full response at: <a href="http://openstack.blogspot.com/2007/10/cdf-and-grand-convergence.html">"CDF and Grand Convergence"</a>

Hope this helps, and thanks for the consideration,

~ge~