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GNOME Foundation Helping OOXML?
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."
One cool thing about mono is that they're using MS' strategy right back at em: Embrace and Extend. In some ways, Mono has more features than .NET, and in some cases (Silverlight 1.1) is ahead of Microsoft. That should make quite a few open source lovers cackle with glee more than anything :)
KDE uses Trolltech's Qt toolkit that is LICENSED UNDER THE GPL and (in version 4)
Yes, Qt is licensed under the GPL; however, it is owned by Troll Tech.
(unless you're interested in a proprietary license, you can buy one from them too)
See, you understand yourself that the software is proprietary, you simply try to pretend that it isn't.
Troll alert. Why don't you go drink some more of that sweet sweet tasting Microsoft Kool-Aid. Maybe after drinking it you will stop praising a convicted Monopoly. *Done on Kubuntu 7.10*
Can someone please mod kdawson +1 flamebait. Providing as the one reference in the submission a random dude's blog is lame.
"What kind of music do pirates listen to?" -Paul Maud'dib
"Yeeeaaarrrrr n' Bee!!" -Stilgar, Leader of Sietch Tabr
Microsoft may call in all their patents and make half of Gnome illegal in the US.
We can only hope.
The Farewell Tour II
Miguel is not our enemy. GNOME is an incredible contribution to humanity, and is just one of Miguel's many contributions to FOSS. I have spent probably 5 hours talking with Miguel and interviewing him for the Digital Tipping Point film project, and I know that he is very passionate about freedom. I don't always agree with everything that Miguel says, but he is one of the brightest minds of the FOSS community, and people really need to stop saying mean things about him. The mere fact that we do not agree with everything that Miguel says or does is no reason to speak poorly of him like this.
The reason *I* dislike C# is because it is so similar to java that it it a waste of effort. It only has one advantage over Java and that is M$ have full control over it. That advantage is an advantage for M$, not for me.
When his defense asked, "Which computer has Jon Johansen trespassed upon?" the answer was: "His own."