[odf-discuss] Gnome Foundation and ECMA

[Ian Lynch]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:32 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote:
> marbux wrote:
> > ... IIRC, Jody also made significant contributions to the ODF Formulas
> > SC work. 
> 
> That's good, so why not let that work continue, rather than undermine
> the ISO policy of "One Standard, One Test, Accepted Everywhere"  ?
> 
> Having Gnome working against open standards 1) lowers the credibility of
> all Gnome project by association, 2) takes developer time away, directly
> and indirectly, from interoperability.
> 
> If Gnome had ODF support, it would not be much of an issue.
> 
> 
> However, they seem to be allowing Jody and a few others to use the Gnome
> name to promote technologies that are neither complete nor free of
> licensing gotchas.

Seems a strange marketing strategy. OOo, Koffice, Google all using ODF
in spreadsheet apps. So the people in the open source open standards
camp are very unlikely to use Excel or anything else that is dependent
on OOXML. So where does that leave Gnumeric? It'll simply be
marginalised.

Ian
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