[odf-discuss] Gnome, Ecma, and what governments (and FOSS?) should have done

[Alberto Barrionuevo]

On Saturday 03 November 2007 14:57:04 Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > One thing is that ECMA committee is composed by Microsoft and its backers
> > (Intel, Apple, Novell, etc.)
>
> To characterise Novell as a Microsoft backer is grossly unfair to my
> ex-colleagues.  They have contributed a massive body of work to
> OO.o, improving and advocating it.

Sorry, you again change my words: I'm not addressing to your ex-collagues. 
They are employees. I'm addressing to the company: Novell. And Novell is 
making a fork of OOo currently:

1) Have you checked that the license of almost all the new developments of 
Novell regarding OOo is incompatible with the OOo license?

2) Have you checked how many contributions have made Novell to the OOo project 
last times (I'm not saying to its "Novell Edition" but to the OOo project 
itself).

3) Have you checked that Novell efforts re OOo are now focused mainly in to 
develop the support for OOXML? (btw, a great help to Microsoft at ISO and to 
the adoption of OOXML instead of ODF later).

4) Also, who did the first OOXML filter that as much helped to Microsoft to 
say at ISO that OOXML is open and multiplatform and that has many independent 
and competing implementations mostly all based on that filter?

I'm speaking about present, not about past. In the past Novell has helped to 
OOo as its second main developer after Sun. I recognize and thank that.

But, unfortunatelly this behaviour changed suddenly after their infamous 
agreement with Microsoft. Of course, Novell was and is still being well paid. 
Contratullations... 

...but SCO received also that "bear embrace" in form of flows of money from 
Microsoft.

Let's see...

//Alberto.