On Thursday 23 August 2007 20:04, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
India votes against ooxml unanimously. the decision of the committee was to disapprove ooxml with comments. The final meeting took place today after 3pm for about an hour and half, and no voting took place.
Brasil too rejects OOXML. But Germany "accepts with comments". Thank god India was unanimous no. In M$ world of alternate reality a non unanimous majority no is a yes with comments. With the likes of Narain Murthy talking crap in the ecotimes i was worried about the end result. The argument that competing standards are good should not be debated at all as it is a typicl M$ ploy. The counter has to be the shredding of the proposal that ooxml is a standard. Binary blobs protected by dubious patents and zero reproducability and or verifiability are not standards just examples of bad documentation. Is there a detailed tech analysis of M$ OOXML listed somewhere?