I’m not sure if you’ve noticed this, but there’s been a curious conflation of the ideas of the open standard OpenDocument format (ODF) and the concept of open source. Now there has long been confusion between open standards and open source, and that’s why I wrote the four part series last year that teased apart the two. At some point, the statue of limitations for confusion will run out and those that can’t keep them straight will just look silly, or worse. In the meanwhile, we all have to keep educating people on the difference.