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KDE and KOffice Rebuke OOXML, GNOME Dithers

Posted by Zonk on from the ooffice-politics dept.

Peter writes "Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman and ITWire have praised KDE and KOffice developers for taking a principled stand against OOXML, while raising serious concerns about the GNOME Foundation's decision to give credibility to Microsoft's broken format. This comes on the heels of GNOME co-founder Miguel de Icaza's depiction of OOXML as a 'superb standard', and GNOME Foundation director Quim Gil's stonewalling of the patent-free Ogg Vorbis / Theora format on behalf of Nokia. Will the GNOME Foundation's indifferent response to Richard Stallman's appeal drive him to throw his weight behind KDE?"

12 of 398 comments (clear)

  1. Old Stallman by RandoX · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gnu drama.

    1. Re:Old Stallman by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 2, Funny

      Get it right. That's GNU/Drama

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  2. Re:Miguel de Icaza by RailGunner · · Score: 5, Funny

    Novell is on MS's payroll.

    But the default desktop for SUSE Linux (owned by Novell) is KDE... So GNOME uses de Icaza who promotes Microsoft on Novell's payroll which ships KDE as the default desktop, but Microsoft has an agreement with Novell who has de Icaza on payroll and - Oh no, now I'm dizzy!

  3. Re:The best way to bring people to open source by phasm42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will the GNOME Foundation's indifferent response to Richard Stallman's appeal drive him to throw his weight behind KDE?
    Found out on the next exciting episode of Desktop Drama!
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  4. Re:Does it matter anymore? by renrutal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not until KDE 4.1.

  5. We can only hope... by gosand · · Score: 4, Funny
    Will the GNOME Foundation's indifferent response to Richard Stallman's appeal drive him to throw his weight behind KDE?"


    As a long time KDE user, I sincerely hope not.

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  6. Do I have the timeline right? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. KDE was good, but not free (Free? phree?) enough.
    2. Gnome was established because we couldn't accept that un-free KDE?
    3. KDE fixed its problems and Gnome became Microsoft's bitch
    4. ???
    5. Profit!!!

  7. Re:Miguel de Icaza by RailGunner · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for the info; but I was really aiming for a +5, Funny moderation with the dizzy comment. :)

  8. Summary is missing the last line: by Mazin07 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tune in next episode as exciting new revelations are unveiled!

  9. Re:grow a pair! by 0racle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps the GNOME people believe that they are not the people to decide how you use your system and therefore just provide tools to do what ever they think you might want to do.

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  10. Open letter to Miguel by seebs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bill's married. It will never work.

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  11. Re:Could someone please explain... by raddan · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... what Miguel de Icaza's obsession with shoving Microsoft technologies in to Gnome? 4. Profit.