BusinessWorld magazine has an article on the recent standards battle at the Bureau of Indian Standards over Microsoft OOXML proposal. As you know, the OOXML proposal was rejected unanimously by the LITD15 committee formed by BIS to review OOXML. The ODF Alliance which includes FSF, Red Hat, IBM and Sun worked hard to ensure that OOXML was not approved. The reasons for this can be read at www.noooxml.org
BusinessWorld is now running a vote on its web site asking readers:
"Which documentation standard do you want to vote for?" The link for this article and the vote (see right hand top corner of the page) is:
http://www.businessworld.in/content/view/2458/2536
I request all FOSS supporters to vote for ODF.
Regards,
Venky
On Friday 07 September 2007 17:25, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
BusinessWorld magazine has an article on the recent standards battle at the Bureau of Indian Standards over Microsoft OOXML proposal.
BusinessWorld is now running a vote on its web site asking readers:
"Which documentation standard do you want to vote for?" The link for this article and the vote (see right hand top corner of the page) is:
http://www.businessworld.in/content/view/2458/2536
I request all FOSS supporters to vote for ODF.
and for good measure once u have voted, remove cookies and revote. Repeat till satiated. No that's not ballot stuffing, just making others see things your way.
BTW list, Venky's comments were in the eco times yesterday :-))
On 08/09/2007, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
and for good measure once u have voted, remove cookies and revote. Repeat till satiated. No that's not ballot stuffing, just making others see things your way.
Playing dirty is not the FOSS way.
If we stoop to the practices of our enemies, we are no better than they.
On Thursday 13 September 2007 23:55, Philip Tellis wrote:
On 08/09/2007, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
and for good measure once u have voted, remove cookies and revote. Repeat till satiated. No that's not ballot stuffing, just making others see things your way.
Playing dirty is not the FOSS way.
If we stoop to the practices of our enemies, we are no better than they.
Err my comment was supposed to be sarcastic as a pointer to similiar comments by M$ regarding loading voting committees for the ODF/OXML standard. I absolutely agree with you.
On 9/14/07, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Thursday 13 September 2007 23:55, Philip Tellis wrote:
On 08/09/2007, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
and for good measure once u have voted, remove cookies and revote. Repeat till satiated. No that's not ballot stuffing, just making others see things your way.
Playing dirty is not the FOSS way.
If we stoop to the practices of our enemies, we are no better than they.
Err my comment was supposed to be sarcastic as a pointer to similiar comments by M$ regarding loading voting committees for the ODF/OXML standard. I absolutely agree with you.
All, Stuff as you wish, how does this puny poll matter? I am worried about the one in Jan/Feb 08: the last odf/ooxml vote.
Regards, Mohan S N
On Friday 14 September 2007 20:10, Mohan Nayaka wrote:
On 9/14/07, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Thursday 13 September 2007 23:55, Philip Tellis wrote:
On 08/09/2007, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
and for good measure once u have voted, remove cookies and revote. Repeat till satiated. No that's not ballot stuffing, just making others see things your way.
Playing dirty is not the FOSS way.
If we stoop to the practices of our enemies, we are no better than they.
Err my comment was supposed to be sarcastic as a pointer to similiar comments by M$ regarding loading voting committees for the ODF/OXML standard. I absolutely agree with you.
All, Stuff as you wish, how does this puny poll matter? I am worried about the one in Jan/Feb 08: the last odf/ooxml vote.
The Feb ISO poll is going to be stuffed by M$ and the ISO will have to live with the ignominy of perhaps the worst standard ever. Countries like Burkina Faso and even ones like Denmark have absolutely no tech ability to evaluate. They will get some M$ pennies in the form of X(plosive)boxen. While the Indian M$ honcho goes bannanas with his version of spiked reality confusing technology with standards (lcd and plasmas). statements like "when you save something to disk the app encodes the data and (then a gigantic leap into his reality) hence only the app that stored the data should read it", No with comments = yes with comments etc etc.
AND HOT OFF THE PRESS http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070914/laf040.html?.v=101 SCO is bankrupt - files for chapter11
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