[odf-discuss] GNOME Foundation Statement on ECMA TC45-M Participation

[Alberto Barrionuevo]

Jeff,

El Sunday 25 November 2007 19:06:57 Jeff Waugh escribió:
> This is yet more "you're either with us or you're against us" rhetoric

No, it is not. It is "with yourself or against yourself"! 
(being "yourself"="Gnome project").

A double standard has no any benefit for Gnome, and OOXML has no any political 
value for Gnome as a project. Isn't it?

Only Novell and Microsoft are insterested in to promote that OOXML format and 
attack ODF... to diferenciate from the rest of competition because only them 
(and Apple) will be able to handle it fine (well, Novell and Apple not fully, 
of course).

But now Gnome also attacks ODF without getting any profit for Gnome as I see 
(point 5 contradicts point 2 of the statement).

I hope you share our concerns, but unfortuntelly it seems that there is no way 
to move any of us from our positions (us in black/white, you in the grey 
political speech... whose profit I'm not able to perceive for Gnome, btw...)

So to continue this flame has no more sense as I see.

As I said, point 5th is not as a big issue for me anyway... At ISO we can 
survive with the rest of points no matter of the use that Microsoft will make 
of 5th...

Thanks for the statement again,
//A.