This comes after a statement by the KDE Foundation that completely rejected OOXML and fully endorse ODF as the future office standard. In the statement, the Gnome Foundation, which includes Microsoft-partner Novell Corp said that "Microsoft continues to behave
in the abusive manner of an unreformed, convicted monopolist with no
passion for true industry collaboration in the interests of
users". But added: "both ODF and OOXML are very heavily influenced by their
implementation heritage, neither are likely to deliver the "one true
office format", and both communities have — in their own way —
played a role in this erosion of trust."
This statement is causing a lot of controversy in the open source community, which many don’t trust the Gnome Foundation or Novell and especially the Mono project, who’s leader has called OOXML a "superb standard".
References: http://www.linux.com/feature/121930, http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/ecma-tc45-statement.html, http://dot.kde.org/1194021253/
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