GNOME Foundation Helping OOXML?

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 28, 2007 @06:24AM 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."

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Linus Prefers KDE by bazald · 2007-10-28 06:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The fact is, at the moment, Gnome is ideologically flawed. Even in terms of presenting a nice clean UI, xfce-4 does a considerably better job using their own libraries. If only distributions like Ubuntu would stop promoting the idea that Gnome is the de-facto UI of choice for Linux, maybe Gnome would seriously consider their problems and improve.

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"Linus Prefers KDE" - That's why I use Gnome. by PaulGaskin · 2007-10-28 07:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Linus is not serious about freedom. He has other priorities.

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