True. For now it's not even a standard, never mind any other criteria by which one may choose to classify a standard. Of course M$ will always have their spin on everything, so Open Standard means just that - a non standard open to interpretation by everyone and the mickysoft puppet.

One of the Demands of the candle light vigil was the need of a Clearly defined national policy for Open standards. Such a policy document need to define Open standards first

Now Knowledge commission recommends Open standards 11th 5-year plan talk about open standards National Egovernance plan (NeGP) recommends it. but in the absence of a national policy with a clear definition of open standards we need to spend a lot of time for every project to get corrected.

As Nagarjuna points on Hindu report already posted here “Very big voices like NASSCOM and Infosys that have not participated in even one meeting have voted irresponsibly. We fear that if such lobbying continues, academics and individuals like us will be put on the defensive, unless there is a policy in place,” said Nagarjuna G., professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, who was part of the technical committee of BIS.

Todays Programme was a big sucess here in bangalore. Nearly 70-80 people turned up.

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