But which is the 'open standard' for font. 'OpenType' is not. ISO Open Font Format is , to some extent. ( because ISO acknowledges IP of Microsoft+Adobe and takesan agnostic position about implication) Are there any people creating fonts under that? We may need to accept interim standard till such time as Open Standard options are made possible,availlabe
jitendra On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>wrote: > On Friday 24 Jul 2009 9:57:04 am Gora Mohanty wrote: > > > A revised version of the letter to the department is attached. > > > > [...] > > > > Oops, forgot the attachement. Here it is. > > I completely disagree with this approach. FOSSCOMM is for open standards - > and > in this case the openstandard is unicode. It is irrelevant at this juncture > whether Nudi is open sourced or not or whether it runs on linux or mac. > What > is relevant is that both the central and state governements use open > standards > - ie, in this case, unicode. The letter should focus on > > 1. Introduction of unicode in all spheres of governance > 2. Conversion of existing documents into unicode. > > that is all the government should do. Platform or proprietary/open are not > relevant in this case and bring in too many other issues that clutter up > the > argument. > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Associate > NRC-FOSS > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > -- jitendra
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