de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard"

Posted by kdawson on Monday September 10, 2007 @12:08PM from the say-it-ain't-so-miguel dept.

you-bet-it's-not-out-of-context writes "A blogger on KDE Developer's Journal has found an interesting post by Miguel de Icaza, the founder of GNOME and Mono, in a Google group dedicated to the discussion of his blog entries. Six days ago Miguel stated that 'OOXML is a superb standard and yet, it has been FUDed so badly by its competitors that serious people believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with it.' In the same post he says that to avoid patent problems over Silverlight, when using or developing Mono's implementation (known as Moonlight), i's best to 'get/download Moonlight from Novell which will include patent coverage.'"

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Yikes by Toonol · 2007-09-10 12:24 · Score: 1, Redundant

Seeing this article made me wince, like when I see a skateboarder about to break twelve bones. The coming violence that we're going to see in this thread is giving me sympathy pains. Miguel is going to get savaged here.