“The average user probably hasn’t even heard of Open Document
Format (ODF) or Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML). But to factions
in the free software community, these formats for common office
files such as text documents and spreadsheets are the poles on
which a violent controversy centers. With both formats candidates
for being the ISO standard that becomes the norm for
interoperability between office suites, emotions were already
running high.“However, in the last six weeks, this issue has been sidetracked
by a debate about whether the GNOME Foundation, which oversees
development of the popular desktop, has betrayed or assisted the
community by being involved with the development of OOXML at
all…”
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