On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On 20-Mar-08, at 8:57 PM, Rony wrote: > > > > > >> Congrats to those who supported ODF. It is sad that the big 5 > >> giants who > >> supported M$ could have otherwise played a major role in sponsoring > >> libre software development in India through Universities and public > >> research centres. No wonder India lags behind in libre software > >> innovation. Practically everything is coming from the West. > >> > > > > how much software do these three giants produce? Very little - India > > produces very little software both in the proprietary and the free > > worlds. > > > > > > > True, but in India they are the giants. >
The editorial in Business Standard today again seems to speak from Microsoft's point of view, and calls OOXML an already existing standard!! As an interested group, we should write to them (and other newspapers) and strongly represent our point of view. Any takers? -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
