GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 23, 2007 7:08 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Bruce Byfield
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The GNOME Foundation has issued a statement in response to recent accusations that it has been supporting the acceptance of Microsoft's Office Open XML format (OOXML) as an ECMA standard at the expense of the Open Document Format (ODF), the open standard used by OpenOffice.org, KOffice and other free software office applications. However, whether the statement's attempt at logical rebuttal will do anything to reduce the emotions or altruism behind the criticisms is anybody's guess.

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