On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 11:41 -0700, Andy Tai wrote: > What was done is done. For the future the board should really consider > not sponsoring anyone to work on the OOXML format (and withdraw > existing involvement on the behalf of the GNOME Foundation), as many > people in the free software/FOSS community are working hard to try to > prevent the OOXML from becoming a standard. Technical issues are just > that; anyone can contribute to the specs if it is his/her interests. > It should be fair to say the majority of the people in the community > opposes making OOXML the "standard" document format.
The idea and board's decision was transcribed in board meeting minutes and sent to this least a few months ago. A mild discussion started and there was no strong opposition to the membership. I don't think just because a fool flamed us makes that decision any different. We're not supporting OOXML. -- 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 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
