[odf-discuss] Gnome Foundation and ECMA

[robert_weir at us.ibm.com]

So we're all on the same page, note that IBM is an "ordinary member" 
(voting member) of Ecma.  We've been one for a long time, before OOXML or 
ODF even existed.  Our involvement in Ecma is has been mainly in 
hardware-related standards.  We are not members of TC45.  In fact you may 
recall that we used our vote in Ecma to vote against creating TC45 as well 
as against approving OOXML as an Ecma Standard.

So I'm not sure we can say that IBM and GNOME are doing the same thing. 
Maybe a closer analogy would be between Novell and GNOME, since Novell 
does participate in TC45.

Regards,

-Rob



"Daniel Carrera" <daniel at zmsl.com>  wrote on 11/03/2007 05:00:18 PM:

> Daniel> How about IBM? ...
> Lars> We are discussing GNOME.  Start a new thread for IBM.
> 
> IBM is relevant to this thread because if IBM and Gnome do the exact
> same thing and you complain about Gnome but not about IBM, you are 
> being inconsistent.
> 
> Daniel.
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