On Nov 25, 2007 12:39 PM, jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 12:18 -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:56:09PM +, jamie wrote:
Office 2007 has less than 10% of all office versions (50m out of 500m)
Which is already comperable to the OO.o
The sell here for Microsoft is very very easy. The small businesses
that I do consulting for here in the US all use Microsoft operating
systems and office products.
Do you talk to them about moving to free software?
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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
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
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
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
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
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
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:44:52AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Hi,
Funny then, that even after nothing being done by GNOME on TC45 since
July (previous to OOXML vote on September 2) ECMA is still claiming
GNOME participates in the disposition of comments:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:05:08PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
Don't change the subject. The statement I quoted is trollish. There is
no need to say we are shooting at our own feet repeatedly. Especially
without any argument (I do not mean just text in an email). The
announcement was not
quote who=Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
The more you guys keep playing the neutral game, the more you'll get
abused like this.
There is no neutral game being played here. Concerns were raised that the
GNOME Foundation's participation in EMCA TC45-M suggested that we supported
OOXML becoming an ISO
The page says
p align=justifyThe work to standardise OpenXML has been
carried out by Ecma International with representatives from Apple,
Barclays Capital, BP, The British Library, Essilor, Gnome
Foundation, Intel, Microsoft, NextPage, Novell, Statoil, Toshiba,
and the United
On Nov 24, 2007 8:27 PM, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no neutral game being played here. Concerns were raised that the
GNOME Foundation's participation in EMCA TC45-M suggested that we supported
OOXML becoming an ISO standard. Thus, the answer was simple: We do not.
Well except
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 04:11:11AM +0100, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
On Nov 24, 2007 8:27 PM, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no neutral game being played here. Concerns were raised that the
GNOME Foundation's participation in EMCA TC45-M suggested that we supported
OOXML becoming
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:02:49AM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:44:52AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Don't cry about people who criticize the Foundation's unconditional
support for OOXML, you're pointing guns at your own feet (and in fact
just took another
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:44:52AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Don't cry about people who criticize the Foundation's unconditional
support for OOXML, you're pointing guns at your own feet (and in fact
just took another shot).
Nice trollish statement.
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Regards,
Olav
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 01:22:00AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:02:49AM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:44:52AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Don't cry about people who criticize the Foundation's unconditional
support for
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