[odf-discuss] Gnome Foundation and ECMA

[Pamela Jones]

Not according to ECMA.  Here's who they list on the TC45 Open XML 
Formats committee:


The following organizations have participated in the work of Ecma TC45 
and their contributions are gratefully acknowledged: Apple, Barclays 
Capital, BP, The British Library, Essilor, The Gnome Foundation, Intel, 
The Library of Congress, Microsoft, NextPage, Novell, Statoil, and Toshiba.
http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/TC45-M.htm




Here are the ordinary ECMA   members:
http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/ordinary.htm

The associate members:
http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/associat.htm

SME members:
http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/SME.htm

SPC members:
http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/SPC.htm

Not-for-profit members:
http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/NFP.htm

Please point out the "quite a few organizations".  I see you, Novell, 
Mozilla, one or two others.  I certainly may be missing some.
Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Pamela Jones">
> 
>> I don't much care what proprietary companies like Apple do and don't do. I
>> care very much what members of the community do.
> 
> There are quite a few organisations involved in the ECMA workgroup that have
> such "political expectations" from the Free Software community. Not just the
> GNOME Foundation. :-)
> 
> - Jeff
>