Re: OOXML [was Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07]

["Luis Villa" <luis tieguy org>]

On 10/31/07, Andy Tai <atai atai org> wrote:
> Not quiet... you don't join ECMA TC45 to prevent OOXML from becoming a
> standard.

OOXML is going to be the defacto standard whether we like it or not.
To pretend otherwise is to deny that the sun will rise in the East
tomorrow.

So our options can be:

1) pretend it doesn't exist and let Microsoft make it suck completely
for anyone who has to reimplement it- which will include us at some
point.

2) acknowledge it and at least attempt to make it suck less for
reimplementers, and allow our presence at ECMA to be used as a pawn to
weaken ODF.

3) acknowledge it and at least attempt to make it suck less for
reimplementers, but use our presence there to highlight Microsoft's
abusive, convicted monopolistic tendencies.

I'm very disappointed that we're currently headed towards #2, which,
IMHO, is probably worse than #1. But it shouldn't be that hard to push
towards #3- which really is the least bad of all the options.

Luis

> On 10/31/07, Behdad Esfahbod < behdad behdad org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 10:19 +0100, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> > >
> > > I think that The GNOME participating in OOXML lends it a credibility
> > > it does not deserve. Joining ECMA TC45 would be like joining of the
> > > political party you dislike the most to improve their politics.
> >
> > To me, it's more like going to debates and challenging them.
> >
> >
> > > --
> > > mvh Björn
> > --
> > behdad
> > http://behdad.org/
> >
> > "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little
> > Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
> >         -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
> >
> >
> >
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> Andy Tai, atai atai org
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