A Letter to the Gnome Foundation | Linux Today

A Letter to the Gnome Foundation

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 28, 2007

[ Thanks to Russell for this link.
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“It appears that the Gnome Foundation is participating in ECMA
TC 451 regarding resolving comments and contradictions for DIS
29500. Given the technical shortcomings in the specification and
the disregard for process that the backers of DIS 29500 have
displayed during the process, Gnome’s participation in this
activity is to the detriment of interoperability among office
suits.

“Efforts should be made to support the International
Organization for Standards (ISO) policy of ‘one standard, one test,
accepted everywhere…'”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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