> Interesting that you should say this. Yesterday I read Eben Moglen's
> response to my questions about the OOXML patent issue. He said
> Microsoft's OSP is worthless.
I have emailed Eben, hopefully he can share with me what he thinks is
worthless about the OSP and maybe we can request the term
> OOXML is a sham as a free/open standard, due to dozens of flaws
> described in http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections.
The problem is that the above url is far from being truthful. You do
not have to go too far to find problems with it, starting with the
discussi
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 08:31 +0100, Glynn Foster wrote:
> In light of Dave's recently departure from the board, we've invited Lucas
> Rocha
> to join the board for the remaining time left on our current term. We felt
> that
> Lucas was a good fit to compliment the current set of board members, and
What does all of this have to do with the GNOME foundation?
Andreas
On Wed, 2007-18-07 at 01:37 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > I would not go as far as saying
> > that OOXML is a sham just because ODF helps us advance our own FLOSS
> > agenda.
> >
> > Why not? Surely there is
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:44:40AM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>
> > > The problem is that the above url is far from being truthful. You do
> > > not have to go too far to find problems with it, starting with the
> > > discussion that we were having on this forum regarding the Microsoft OSP
> >
> > The problem is that the above url is far from being truthful. You do
> > not have to go too far to find problems with it, starting with the
> > discussion that we were having on this forum regarding the Microsoft OSP
> > patent promise.
>
> I have issued with it, it is only for *required*
Hi,
In light of Dave's recently departure from the board, we've invited Lucas Rocha
to join the board for the remaining time left on our current term. We felt that
Lucas was a good fit to compliment the current set of board members, and we're
all looking forward to working with him.
I'd like to p
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:37:09AM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>
> > I would not go as far as saying
> > that OOXML is a sham just because ODF helps us advance our own FLOSS
> > agenda.
> >
> > Why not? Surely there is nothing wrong with telling the truth to
> > support the free
