[odf-discuss] Gnome Foundation and ECMA

[Daniel Carrera]

Ian:
> This is rather like the child that claims to its dad
> justification in doing something because some other kid at school did
> it. The usual parental reply is if Johnny put his hand in the fire would
> that justify you in doing it too?

Very poor analogy. IBM and Gnome are both ODF-implementors who are present in ECMA TC45. If you say that Gnome gives credence to OOXML merely by being listed in the TC but IBM doesn't, you are being inconsistent.