Petition Contradiction http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-24303/petition-contradiction Posts in the discussion thread "Petition Contradiction" - How can anyone sign this after reading the first point? http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-24303#post-61572 Petition Contradiction http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-24303/petition-contradiction#post-61572 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:55:33 +0000 bvbellomo 45409 The very first thing in the petition:
"a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to industry, government and citizens"

WTF - We have KDE, GNOME, XFC, Debian, Fedora, Suse, Konqueror, FireFox, Galeon, IceWeasel, OOo Writer, AbiWord, KWord, etc.

50,000 people are sending a clear message that the open source community is for a single unified standard based on what everyone is already using as opposed to the needless proliferation of alternatives offered by Microsoft.

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