---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.glug-bom.org Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:09:07 +0530 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Cross Posting] How the corrupt ones manipulate things - are we going to allow them to win ? Should we just keep quiet or begin a global protest ? On Saturday 29 March 2008 10:53 am, Sudhir Gandotra wrote:
The statement goes on to say that Danish Standards is changing its vote because "the 168 Danish comments have been adopted as changes to ISO/IEC DIS 29500 OOXML".
What they did not tell you is that abstain = yes. And that email votes count. Only that many of the abstainers never recieved any intimation stating that abstain = yes.
So in the bizzare M$ universe no with comments become yes, if the ecma makes a comment - any comment - on your comment and abstain = yes and you can change a no to yes BUT you turncoats cant change a yes to no.
Get it. NO? aha that's what happens if you dont use M$.
The standard operating process of Microsoft has been:
a) Stuff the committee with supporters (as happened in Pakistan and other countries) b) If that doesn't work and the committee says NO to OOXML then c) Complain to the ministries under which the committee works, threaten to withdraw investment, get proxies to file complaints etc.
In India, I hear that they raised the issue with the Prime Minister's Office and the PM called for a meeting on this issue on Thursday. Apparently, the head of one of the software export houses (a VERY respected person) also sent a fax supporting OOXML *after* the committee had given its decision, trying to overturn India's NO vote. Someone should ask whether these companies represent India's interests on the BIS committee or are they protecting their dollar revenues?
Venky