On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:15 PM, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 20 March 2008 03:03 pm, Nishit Dave wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 20-Mar-08, at 2:54 PM, Nagarjuna G. wrote: > > > > India's BIS votes against ooxml. out of 19 members, five of > > > > them did not > > > > attend the meeting, one of them abstained, five voted in favor > > > > of ooxml, and > > > > the rest voted against. > > > > > > congratulations - keep it up (or keep them down) > > > > Let us identify who voted in favour of OOXML, and hound them for > > the rest of their productive careers. Might keep them from trying > > to pull off something like this in the future. > > > > Oh, never mind, political correctness and all... > > That is politically correct. Trying to screw up standards is amongst > the worst possible misuse of "public " office. If these are linked to > certain business organisations, boycott their products whenever > possible. >
Now, we have the full details of who are the people who voted in favor, those agencies which Indian Govt. calls the IT community organizations: find out for yourslef from the report, and MS's press statement. http://www.tech2.com/india/news/software/breaking-news-indias-final-vote-on-ms-office-file-standard-is-no/32081/0 we have to learn to treat these organizations with respect! Nagarjuna -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
