Dear friends,
Please see my article on why India should adopt open standards and a response from Microsoft at http://www.infochangeindia.org/analysis236.jsp
Microsoft's respose is actually a big joke. For instance, they claim that "Microsoft software is completely interoperable.". And just yesterday Microsoft has been fined a record $1.35 billion precisely for not providing information to enable interoperability!
A response to Microsoft is on my blog http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/ since Infochange was not willing to publish my response.
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:00 PM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi.fsf@gmail.com wrote:
Dear friends,
Please see my article on why India should adopt open standards and a response from Microsoft at http://www.infochangeindia.org/analysis236.jsp
Microsoft's respose is actually a big joke. For instance, they claim that "Microsoft software is completely interoperable.". And just yesterday Microsoft has been fined a record $1.35 billion precisely for not providing information to enable interoperability!
On a related note. The IT department has different excel forms for filing returns... that demonstrate the heights of interoperability and the corruption in the high offices. That is one for the different "Hall of Shame" too.
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A. Mani
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