The Gnome Foundation has put up it’s hand to participate in ECMA TC 45 (Office Open XML) much to the chagrin of some community members such as Russell Ossendryver who has written an open letter to the foundation.
I hope that cooler heads will prevail here. Clearly the foundation does support ODF and will continue to favour it’s use. But OOXML in all fairness is a great leap forward as far as interop with our Microsoft friends goes. Never before has the Open Source Community been able to participate in and help refine a format that will be implemented as the default in Microsoft Office.
Yes it does suck that they (MS) wont standardise on ODF (ISO/IEC 26300) with the rest of the world but let’s make the best of a bad situation.
07.10.29 at 09:52 |
Yes, help us developping something that work. And then, pay us to use it!
Morality: Give us a hand, we’ll give you a finger.
07.10.29 at 11:36 |
Would it not be better to shun the corrupt and malformed standard until such times that it’s been recreated as something worthy of our attention. I’d say that regardless of it’s use in Microsoft software is no reason in and of it’s self to waste our time implementing.
And I do _not_ consider people using Microsoft software my friends; I consider them to have some ailement which needs curing not indulging.
07.10.30 at 01:57 |
>regardless of it’s use in Microsoft software is no reason in and of it’s self to waste our time implementing
I don’t know about you but I live in a world where people send me MS docs a lot more than they do ODF docs…I know I could be a pita and ask them to send as RTF or something but then you end up doing help desk duties everytime you want to recieve a document; “Ché, how do I save as an RTF?”
07.11.01 at 00:43 |
[...] the negative ballots in September, in hopes of changing hearts and minds by February. GNOME’s participation in that group is upsetting Open Document Format (ODF) [...]
07.11.04 at 12:33 |
[...] the negative ballots in September, in hopes of changing hearts and minds by February. GNOME’s participation in that group is upsetting Open Document Format (ODF) [...]