[odf-discuss] Gnome Foundation and ECMA

[Russell Ossendryver]

Although Jeff Waugh states "The GNOME Foundation does not support ISO
standardisation of OOXML" they are sponsoring the development of
OOXML.

Jody  confirms  there should be 2 standards and him being at TC45
resolving comments for ECMA for the main ISO ooxml vote in February,
improving on OOXML for interoperability and Gnome implementing OOXML
as much as possible as quickly as possible gives MS a huge weapon as
an argument at the ISO for standardization and all this sponsored by
Gnome.. Why would that not piss off everyone working on ODF adoption?

If OOXML becomes and ISO it will  slow down ODF adoption
and hence slow down the Free Desktop also. That is obvious, so why are they
helping?

If Gnome sent a representative with the Philosophy of only "one
standard" it would not be as bad, but still questionable.


On 10/29/07, Ian Lynch <ian.lynch at zmsl.com> wrote:
> 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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