Chinese Whispers

A fascinating post by Stephen Walli about China and openness. As well as his comments about why it was inevitable that open source should thrive in China, there was this interesting tidbit:

China has its own document format standard called UOF. It is somewhat consistent with ODF. There is to be a convergence. I learned at dinner one night that Red Flag has already built UOF support into Red Office, so hopefully the support will rapidly ripple back out through the OpenOffice.org community and the rest of the ODF supporting products will soon support UOF as well.

Can you hear the sound of tomorrow?

Update: And here's some background to open source in China.