Re: [ILUG-BOM] BIS committee votes against ooxml

On Thursday 20 March 2008 08:57 pm, Rony wrote:

Congrats to those who supported ODF. It is sad that the big 5 giants who supported M$ could have otherwise played a major role in sponsoring libre software development in India through Universities and public research centres. No wonder India lags behind in libre software innovation. Practically everything is coming from the West.

True. But a particular business model does not excuse any one from taking the right decision. These five are either incompetent or ethically very seriously challenged. Who in his right mind will approve a "Standard" with as many trashy recursive definitions as this one.