[odf-discuss] Gnome Foundation and ECMA

[M. Fioretti]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 23:50:41 PM +1100, Jeff Waugh
(jdub at perkypants.org) wrote:

> <quote who="M. Fioretti">
> 
> > "Jody's participation is principally about to make OOXML easier to
> > tolerate and generate/distribute OOXML even by Free Software users"
> 
> Wouldn't it be great to have the SMB/CIFS protocol documented?
> Perhaps parts of the Win32 API for interoperability reasons? Why not
> the Microsoft binary and XML formats? Should we not interoperate
> with Microsoft at all?

No. Not on THEIR terms, in a way that lets them remain the big bully,
that is. "Interoperate" means equal strength contenders agreeing on
fair rules on how to deal with each other. Not the weakest continuing
to catch-up with last-years rules, different every year, imposed by
the other. This is exactly the threadmill that should be broken, or
abandoned. And my only point in this issue is that I don't see how you
are helping.

I forgot to add another point in my original reply, but I'll do in a
new thread since it's a somewhat larger issue.

Ciao,
	    Marco
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