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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?"

2 of 398 comments (clear)

  1. sounds like Novell is running the show now by r00t · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Grrr... and I was refusing to touch KDE because way back when they linked other people's GPL code against pre-GPL Qt. I'm not happy now. Fuck you Novell, for being Microsoft's bitch.

  2. Secret support of anti-free policies? by Futurepower(R) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To me, the Slashdot story reads like someone trying to direct attention away from secret dealing. "Peter" wrote the story; who is he?