On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:15 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran@fsfe.org writes:
The GNOME Foundation have now published a statement about MS OOXML: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/ecma-tc45-statement.html
Discussion of this can be found on LWN.net: http://lwn.net/Articles/259765/
It is quite sad that a number of people want GNOME to shoot itself in the foot over the standardisation issues.
I think GNOME's attempt to ensure that any resulting standard is implementable by free software is laudable; to put all our eggs in the "OXML doesn't get ISO" basket is a. risky and b. ignores that OXML is the default Office file format now :/
It seems to me that the people usually advocating that the community completely ignore OXML are the people who aren't using .doc files anyway.
Cheers,
Alex.