GNOME Foundation Defends OOXML Involvement
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 24th Nov 2007 23:31 UTC
Gnome "The GNOME Foundation has issued a statement in response to recent accusations that it has been supporting the acceptance of Microsoft's Office Open XML format as an ECMA standard at the expense of the Open Document Format, the open standard used by OpenOffice.org, KOffice and other free software office applications. However, whether the statement's attempt at logical rebuttal will do anything to reduce the emotions or altruism behind the criticisms is anybody's guess."
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by aseigo on Tue 27th Nov 2007 00:02 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: ..."
aseigo
Member since:
2005-07-06

hey jeff =)

"we were not involved in OOXML's creation,"

the whole point of Jody being involved with the ECMA group is to help have a say in OOXML isn't it? that's pretty much "involved in OOXML's creation". perhaps the word "creation" is incorrect; let me replace that with the word "development".

"nor are we contributing to it becoming an ISO standard"

that's merely an unintended side effect of this. i certainly don't believe it is the intention, however. it sucks when intention and results don't match up, i know. =/

p.s. see you at l.c.a in january =))

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by jdub on Tue 27th Nov 2007 00:08 in reply to "RE[3]: ..."
jdub Member since:
2005-08-19

the whole point of Jody being involved with the ECMA group is to help have a say in OOXML isn't it?


No. OOXML was very much Microsoft's creation, dumped on ECMA. As noted in the statement and my comment earlier, Jody is there to get as much documentation out of them as possible.

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