christian.einfeldt writes "According to long-time OpenDocument Fellowship member Russell Ossendryver, it appears that GNOME founder Miguel de Icaza's widely-publicized praise for OOXML as a 'superb standard' is being followed up with on-going support by... ...full story at slashdot
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| 11 Sep 07 |
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Miguel de Icaza: Gnome creator, linux developer,and... OOXML supporter? » digg According to Icaza:"OOXML is a superb standard and yet, it has been FUDed so badly by its competitors that serious people believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with it. This is at a time when OOXML as a spec is in much better shape than any... |
| 11 Sep 07 |
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de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" » slashdot you-bet-it's-not-out-of-context writes "A blogger on KDE Developer's Journal has found an interesting post by Miguel de Icaza, the founder of GNOME and Mono, in a Google group dedicated to the discussion of his blog entries. Six days ago Miguel stated... |
| 11 Dec 07 |
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KDE and KOffice Rebuke OOXML, GNOME Dithers » slashdot Peter writes "Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman and ITWire have praised KDE and KOffice developers for taking a principled stand against OOXML, while raising serious concerns about the GNOME Foundation's decision to give credibility to... |
| 12 Feb 08 |
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Microsoft Standing Firm On OOXML ISO Vote » slashdot christian.einfeldt writes "Microsoft has responded via the industry trade group ECMA to some of the thousands of criticisms of its submission of Office Open XML as an ISO standard. Open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver takes a look at those... |
| 29 Dec 07 |
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Microsoft Deprecating Some OOXML Functionality » slashdot christian.einfeldt writes "According to open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver, Microsoft will be deprecating certain functionality in its Microsoft Office Open XML specification. Ossendryver says the move is an attempt to quiet critics of the... |