[snip] fabulous! i love phatak's courage to just step up to the plate and hammer microsoft openly whenever they play on the wrong footing. he has strong value-systems and never shirks from calling a spade a spade.
he's my tux-hero for the month. :-) look at what he says here: "2. Microsoft started filing complaints to various Indian authorities in early March 2008, claiming bias on part of several members of the committee because of their presumed membership of a group called 'ODF Alliance India'. My Institution and its representatives are part of the group which has been falsely implicated in these complaints. Worse, the complaints have painted these organizations and their representatives, including the Indian delegation which attended the BRM, as acting against the Indian National interests. This is the most derogatory accusation to any Indian, amounting, personally for me at least, to intolerable blasphemy." http://deepakphatak.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-is.html my take on this: since when has microsoft started to decide what is against india's national interests? i agree with professor phatak that this is "the most derogatory accusation to any indian". [sarcasm] what an ironic contrast to the consistent image of microsoft only thinking of its own personal interests in all matters. [/sarcasm] well, i hope microsoft has been quite successful in shooting itself in the foot with all this. that their crude and politically-incorrect strategies have backfired, so their sham-of-a-standard is negated, by their own actions. regards niyam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
