[odf-discuss] GNOME Foundation Statement on ECMA TC45-M Participation

[Alberto Barrionuevo]

El Sunday 25 November 2007 12:31:04 Ian Lynch escribió:
> > no one needs two standards for the same thing.. And so saying you like
> > ODF better while working to implement and improve the MSOOXML and making
> > a statement like point 5... well, people see what they see.
>
> This is one of those situations where you are either for or against.
> Sitting on the fence and shouting we are misunderstood is not going to
> change anything - well it probably calls greater attention to your
> predicament. What matters is perception and probably the great majority
> of people that are working hard to establish a fair and open document
> standard are going to see Gnome as a villain - period. Those that don't
> care probably don't know a gnome from a dwarf in any case so you pay
> your money and you take your chance.

Well, just more points in favour of KDE and its great KDE4...

Every day more community people is moving away from Gnome to KDE... You check 
this in every free software congress or meeting.

Gnome board, as responsible of the project as a whole, should think why...

...and perhaps after thinking about, some day, Gnome will move apart from the 
Novell MS-proxy as most of the community did from SCO/Corel...

http://perkypants.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/sco-dst-patch.jpg

Just think about your once great project...

Free software development is genetic,
    //A-for-many-years-Gnome-user up to...