Re: GNOME Foundation Statement on ECMA TC45-M Participation

2007-11-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=jamie I can see MS spinning this to their advantage and I believe playing safe here would be better for us in the short term Thing is, Microsoft haven't spun it to their advantage. They've mentioned that Gnumeric is implementing OOXML, but that actually works against them (due to the

Re: GNOME Foundation Statement on ECMA TC45-M Participation

2007-11-25 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:16:48AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=jamie I can see MS spinning this to their advantage and I believe playing safe here would be better for us in the short term Thing is, Microsoft haven't spun it to their advantage. They've mentioned that Gnumeric is

Re: GNOME Foundation Statement on ECMA TC45-M Participation

2007-11-25 Thread jamie
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 12:18 -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:56:09PM +, jamie wrote: MOOX is most likely to become irrelevant IMO Not agreed. its debatable and subjective - yes. I reject the notion its a foregone conclusion that MS gets its way however

Re: GNOME Foundation Statement on ECMA TC45-M Participation

2007-11-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=jamie In any event I dont understand why the gnome foundation was pulled into this - cant you do your work with ECMA without foundation backing? As explained in the statement, the GNOME Foundation joined ECMA as a non-profit to allow Jody to continue his work sucking the

Re: GNOME Foundation Statement on ECMA TC45-M Participation

2007-11-25 Thread jamie
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 04:45 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=jamie In any event I dont understand why the gnome foundation was pulled into this - cant you do your work with ECMA without foundation backing? As explained in the statement, the GNOME Foundation joined ECMA as a non-profit

Re: GNOME Foundation Statement on ECMA TC45-M Participation

2007-11-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=jamie On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 04:45 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=jamie In any event I dont understand why the gnome foundation was pulled into this - cant you do your work with ECMA without foundation backing? As explained in the statement, the GNOME Foundation