KOffice vs OOXML: Practical, Not Political
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nbsp;Linux.com is running this story explaining why the KOffice stance against OOXML isn’t political, it’s practical:
“In the recent accusations that the GNOME Foundation has been supporting Microsoft’s OOXML format at the expense of ODF, KDE has been presented as a counter-example. Based on a KDE News article, Richard Stallman suggested that “major KDE developers” had announced “their rejection of OOXML” and urged GNOME to do the same. More recently, a widely linked story on ITWire used the same article to declare that KDE has taken a “principled stand” against OOXML. However, if you go the source, the story is more nuanced than these claims suggest.
True, KOffice — not KDE, which is a separate project — will not be implementing OOXML in a hurry, and part of the reason is political. However, the decision is also a practical one, and KOffice has not rejected the possibility of supporting OOXML in the future.”
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One Comment
echolink
January 3rd, 2008
at 11:34pm
I totally agree with Stallmans approach on this, I support GPL, and FSF, even though I dont have problem with proprietory, and use alot of propietory software. I feel that Koffice is taking the right approach on this issue.