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Political vs. Technical Arguments

Political vs. Technical Arguments

Posted Nov 26, 2007 19:13 UTC (Mon) by jdub (subscriber, #27)
In reply to: Political vs. Technical Arguments by grouch
Parent article: The GNOME Foundation on OOXML

You are apologizing for Microsoft's corruption of the process and blaming those who exposed that corruption for the resultant erosion of trust.

No, we pretty firmly blamed Microsoft, and also raised the danger of the community's adoption of similar behaviour, because this will fall straight into Microsoft's hands.

The community does have a role to play in uniting our efforts and the demonisation of GNOME has not been productive in that regard. (Let alone the non-practitioners who don't understand how the politicisation of the process -- by either side -- is damaging to us.)

I'm okay to agree to disagree here. There are clearly differing views on the topic.


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