[odf-discuss] major ODF v. MOOX (aka OOXML) on Slashdot

[Alexandro Colorado]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:51:14 -0500, Christian Einfeldt  
<einfeldt at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi
>
> On 9/11/07, Lars Noodén <lars at umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm not able to figure out deIcaza's motives as his actions over the
>> years, to me, defy logic, make no sense and appears only to cause
>> greater and greater harm.
>
>
> I filmed Miguel on three occasions, and I can tell you that he is really
> gung-ho about FOSS and freedom.  He believes that we will not succeed
> without a strong FOSS commercial presence, and he thinks that the borg is
> going to loose market share.  He sees cross-platform apps as eroding MSFT
> market share.
>
> But saying that MOOX is a good standard is a little bit off.  I guess  
> that
> what he is saying is that Microsoft Office is robust, which is true,  
> except
> for the fact that it is born broken because it is locked down.  In other
> words, if it weren't for the locked down license and binary poison pills  
> in
> MOOX, would you like MOOX?  Maybe that is what he is saying.


Miguel has definetly change a lot and basically has been corrupted  by the  
microsoft people. He had spend more time talking to microsoft engineers  
and falling in love wiht their engineering innovation that to a degree he  
wants to port that to Linux. The problem is that he will commonly ignore  
the community since in his mind the Linux community has been more about  
fanboys than hackers.

On that same note however, he has been extremely blunt and don't really  
care for the community he helped to form. He is an engineer not a leader  
and his visions are usually blured by his motives.

OOXML 7000 pages standard might have 'some' innovation, but this is not a  
rat race to see who innovates more. But if this should be an open enough  
standard. Miguel  has failed to convinced that Mono won't drag Microsoft  
interest and lawsuits..

-- 
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org