Gnome foundation in kahoots?
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| summary:
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| Having a delegate in the ECMA T45 Committee the Gnome foundation clarified
| its involvement in a superb standard development and bashes the vendor.
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| The Gnome foundation actively participated in the ECMA fast-tracking of Open
| XML as a sock puppet for Novell. Now the Foundation clarified its position
| that came under recent criticism.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-28290/gnome-foundation-in-kahoots
Related:
GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement
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| Instead, I suspect that many in the community would agree with Ossendryver's
| statement on his blog that "The participation of GNOME in ECMA TC45’s
| apparent subversion of the standards process is a major disservice to FOSS
| and all in the community who have worked so hard for open platforms and open
| standards." From this position, what matters is loyalty -- and that, for
| many, seems to mean support only for ODF and a complete boycott of any
| efforts to make OOXML a standard. Far from clarifying matters, the
| Foundation's statement may very well serve only to confirm this position and
| to justify the paranoia about its motives.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/121930
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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