With Friends Like These - GNOME, OOXML, and ODF: A Q&A
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| On the first of this month, after reading about the original dispute between
| ODF advocates and representatives from the GNOME community,
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/11/29/gnome_odf/
Eyes on Novell employees (or former employees) like de Icaza and Jody Goldberg.
Some say that they Microsoft shills.
Related:
Gnome foundation in kahoots?
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| Having a delegate in the ECMA T45 Committee the Gnome foundation clarified
| its involvement in a superb standard development and bashes the vendor.
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| The Gnome foundation actively participated in the ECMA fast-tracking of Open
| XML as a sock puppet for Novell. Now the Foundation clarified its position
| that came under recent criticism.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-28290/gnome-foundation-in-kahoots
GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement
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| Instead, I suspect that many in the community would agree with Ossendryver's
| statement on his blog that "The participation of GNOME in ECMA TC45’s
| apparent subversion of the standards process is a major disservice to FOSS
| and all in the community who have worked so hard for open platforms and open
| standards." From this position, what matters is loyalty -- and that, for
| many, seems to mean support only for ODF and a complete boycott of any
| efforts to make OOXML a standard. Far from clarifying matters, the
| Foundation's statement may very well serve only to confirm this position and
| to justify the paranoia about its motives.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/121930
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