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AbiWord team interview (Red Hat Magazine)

AbiWord team interview (Red Hat Magazine)

Posted May 12, 2008 21:27 UTC (Mon) by Tet (subscriber, #5433)
In reply to: AbiWord team interview (Red Hat Magazine) by gravious
Parent article: AbiWord team interview (Red Hat Magazine)

How can they have known beforehand that they would have little or no influence?

Thus speaks the voice of someone that has never tried participating in a standards process where big corporate interests are involved. I'm not saying they wouldn't have benefited from having someone representing their interests on the committee. But given limited resources, it is almost certain that their time was better spent on hacking Abiword than on getting bogged down in standardization politics.


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