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GNOME Foundation Helping OOXML?

Posted by kdawson on from the on-your-own-time-please dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "According to long-time OpenDocument Fellowship member Russell Ossendryver, it appears that GNOME founder Miguel de Icaza's widely-publicized praise for OOXML as a 'superb standard' is being followed up with on-going support by the GNOME Foundation in 'resolving' the thousands of criticisms leveled against Microsoft's proposed standard. In an open letter in his blog, Ossendryver urges the GNOME Foundation to halt its apparent support for OOXML as a standard and to put its efforts behind enhancing adoption of the genuinely open standard, ODF, which was approved by the world standards bodies as ISO/IEC standard 26300 on 2 May 2006."

5 of 471 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Linus Prefers KDE by random0xff · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe you should submit a story about that so your comments can be relevant to the actual article...

  2. Izt's Teh Allz About Choice!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Dat wut I luv teh Lunix about: it'z teh allz about teh choice. But don't be chooze teh MiKKKr0$l0th... cuz dey iz teh EVILZ!!!!

    So be teh choice, buts can't choose teh MiKKKrosloth. Cuz it's about teh choice!

  3. Re:Why not boycott Gnome? Who needs it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's the difference between the company that owns Qt and you?

    One's Trolltech, and the other's a tech troll!

  4. Re:Accommodation? by zippthorne · · Score: 3, Funny

    Winamp as a free mp3 player for Windows has been around for ten years. Yeah, but for the past six, it's consistently failed to kick alpacan derrière.

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  5. Re:Quit looking for body snatchers by 19thNervousBreakdown · · Score: 2, Funny

    Calmer than you are, Dude.

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