KDE and KOffice rebuke OOXML; GNOME dithers

Peter writes: Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman and ITWire have praised KDE and KOffice developers for taking a principled stand against OOXML, while raising serious concerns about the GNOME Foundation's decision to give credibility to Microsoft's broken format. This comes on the heels of GNOME co-founder Miguel de Icaza's depiction of OOXML as a 'superb standard', and GNOME Foundation director Quim Gil's stonewalling of the patent-free Ogg Vorbis / Theora format on behalf of Nokia. Have GNOME's leaders completely sold out their free software credentials to corporate and anti-consumer interests? And will the GNOME Foundation's indifferent response to Richard Stallman's appeal drive him to throw his weight behind KDE?

Simple: stop using GNOME

[Wiseman1024]

GNOME is "free" software, but every day it's getting more like "gratis" and less like "libre". The solution? Let's ignore Icaza and other corporate monkeys and stop using GNOME. Let them work for free (not that they REALLY work for free, I'm sure they get nice paychecks, laptops or gadgets from certain corporations), but don't make the mistake of using their software that will eventually bind you to non-free technologies, and is being built with corporations' interest in mind, not users, not YOU.

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[Wiseman1024]

There's a difference. VideoLAN would not be useful if it didn't support certain proprietary formats. Office suites are about just as useful if they don't support Microsoft's ill-conceived """standard""". Moreover, formats supported by VideoLAN were not specifically created to hurt the free software community.

And even if you bother supporting it, why are some GNOME big shots, and especially Miguel de Icaza, always defending every piece of crap coming from Microsoft's and speaking well of the ones who would f