This week at LWN: GNOME and OOXML

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 7, 2007 11:40 PM EDT
LWN.net; By Jonathan Corbet
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The OOXML document standard being pushed by Microsoft has caused a certain amount of stress within both the development and commercial sides of the free software community. In some quarters it is seen as the latest attempt by a monopolistic firm to co-opt free software and the move to more free file formats; they would like to limit our involvement to opposition to the adoption of OOXML as a standard. Others see it as an attempt by Microsoft to come to terms with the demand for more open formats and to promote, in its own special way, interoperability.

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