Nagarjuna G. wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:15 PM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Thursday 20 March 2008 03:03 pm, Nishit Dave wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On 20-Mar-08, at 2:54 PM, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
India's BIS votes against ooxml. out of 19 members, five of them did not attend the meeting, one of them abstained, five voted in favor of ooxml, and the rest voted against.
congratulations - keep it up (or keep them down)
Let us identify who voted in favour of OOXML, and hound them for the rest of their productive careers. Might keep them from trying to pull off something like this in the future.
Oh, never mind, political correctness and all...
That is politically correct. Trying to screw up standards is amongst the worst possible misuse of "public " office. If these are linked to certain business organisations, boycott their products whenever possible.
Now, we have the full details of who are the people who voted in favor, those agencies which Indian Govt. calls the IT community organizations: find out for yourslef from the report, and MS's press statement. http://www.tech2.com/india/news/software/breaking-news-indias-final-vote-on-...
we have to learn to treat these organizations with respect!
Nagarjuna
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.