On 7/1/07, Nagarjuna G. nagarjun@gnowledge.org wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 04:14:57PM +0530, Anivar Aravind wrote:
microsoft is now on the similar kind of lobbying with BIS (Beuro of Indian Standards) to make OOXML as a standard. I feel FSF must campaign on this.
Anivar
Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard
also look at http://www.odfalliance.org. I attended two of the meetings in BIS working committee. FSF India is working along with ODFalliance India and trying to convince BIS. I will be attending another meeting tom. I will update tom.
some of the minutes are documented here.
The discussions we are having at BIS working group meetings are minuted here. http://www.odfalliance.in/OOXML.html Please go through the debates, and see what more issues we could pursue.
Nagarjuna