[odf-discuss] Gnome Foundation and ECMA

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="M. Fioretti">

> "Jody's participation is principally about to make OOXML easier to
> tolerate and generate/distribute OOXML even by Free Software users"

Wouldn't it be great to have the SMB/CIFS protocol documented? Perhaps parts
of the Win32 API for interoperability reasons? Why not the Microsoft binary
and XML formats? Should we not interoperate with Microsoft at all? How would
you expect our software to be embraced by users in the real world if we were
entirely unable to interoperate?

I understand that advocates may have different points of view to those of us
who actually have users and ship software, but please consider the logical
conclusions of what you are suggesting.

Thanks,

- Jeff

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