Message: 9 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:18:07 +0530 From: "Nishit Dave" stargazer.dave@gmail.com Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] BIS committee votes against ooxml

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:11 PM, krishnakant Mane researchbase@gmail.com

wrote:

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I went through the editorial. one more point which struck me was that it creates an impression that this is a "proxy for product war " which means all those who supported odf also had some selfish marketing gains. here we should note that people like Dr. Nagarjun have helped this cause due to no "marketing of product " aim. secondly the tone of the editorial also talks about the licensing cost issue and has not really emphasised on the "freedom aspect " which implies freedom to encript and decript the data by any one who wishes to do so. it uses words like "negociations for license costs ", correct me if I am remembering wrong but although my quoting might not be word to word correct, the tone of the article is towards saying that odf is for those who care about the cost of licensing and it talks nothing much about freedom.

Yes, I forgot to mention that.  One more reason to believe they are reading out of Microsoft's PR briefs.  Can we work upon drafting a letter to the editor as the GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai?

Please take the lead.

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