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Considering that India has quite responsibly voted NO after considerable deliberation it was unfortunate that the standard was passed due to rather questionable efforts of vested commercial interests.
I request you to consider aiding and supporting South Africa's appeal against the Microsoft sponsored standard OOXML which raises valid questions on the credibility of the followed process with regards -
1. The last minute "stuffing" of committees by voters, mostly Microsoft partners 2. The outrageous discounting of questions raised by heads of committees of members countries. 3. The purposeful wrong recording of NO votes as YES votes.
Once again,I request you to aid South Africa's appeal in the interest of freedom of information so rightly upheld by India.
regards,
Chetan Shringarpure Mumbai 400081 Member,GNU/Linux Users Group of Bombay.
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Easwar Hariharan meindian523@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Praveen A pravi.a@gmail.com wrote:
2008/5/24, Prashant Shah elite.mumbai@gmail.com:
Can we get BIS to back this appeal, considering it has voted no and raised concerns about the process?
Least one can do is email our own delegate requesting a formal complain.
Send your requests at
ird AT bis.org.in
Also pick up your phone and talk to them at +91 11 23 23 79 91
I sent the below:
<mail> Sir, I appeal to you to consider aiding and supporting South Africa's appeal against the Microsoft sponsored standard OOXML considering that India has voted NO and raised many objections and the doubts raised about the credibility of the standardization process and allegations of manipulation of the national committees of various countries by last minute entries of voters,most of whom were Microsoft partners and voted Yes,also considering that some countries' committees' members have expressed surprise that even though the unanimous decision in the committee was to vote NO,but these have been registered as YES with the ISO. Once again,I appeal to you to aid South Africa's appeal in the interest of freedom of access to documentation.
Regards, Easwar Hariharan Mumbai 400080 Member,GNU/Linux Users Group of Bombay.
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Hope this helps people who would love to shoot off the mail but can't think of anything on the spot.And improvements and additions are always welcome.
Regards, Easwar -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers