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Islamists Get the Upper Hand in Canada Through State Sanctioned Kangaroo Courts
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OOXML vs ODF: A Letter to the Gnome Foundation
It is time to unite the community behind the standard, universal format for office suites and distance themselves from Ecma TC45 and DIS 29500. The participation of Gnome in Ecma TC45's apparent subversion of the standards process is a major disservice to FOSS and all in the community who have worked so hard for open platforms and open standards.
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In an ideal world standards would dictate what is used by corporations. This is *not* happening. If you have any indication of .odt standard as being made the native format (or at least one of the formats) M$ Office will support then I agree: nobody should care about OOXML. Until then... I need good implementations in OpenOffice/KOffice/GnomeOffice

Probably half of the office docs I get emailed now are OOXML.


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