I agree. Here's what I recommend that we do first. Create a public statement and have various open source groups endorse it. Get a sponsor, such as IBM, Sun, Morph Labs, to pay for a full-page advert and have it printed.
>From there, we start the ball rolling and attack it via the BPS route. On undefined, Peter Plug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > C'mon, enough rhetoric already.... time for some action.... > > Anyone willing to start/shepherd the movement to endorse to the Philippine > Bureau of Standards the adoption of ODF as a Philippine National Standard? > Basically, a PNS (which is derived from an ISO std) is more binding in the > Philippines than an ISO std (that may or may not be adopted as a PNS). > > Don't drop the ball on this one... I bet MS is already working on OOXML > being adopted as a Philippine Standard...(maybe an exclusive standard > even)... > > > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Prof. Rom Feria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wonder what happened to the OpenMinds thingie. > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:19 AM, manny+phnix.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Prof. Rom Feria wrote: > > > > > > > It may be a small thing for us in PLUG to issue a public statement > > > > about OOXML but believe me, it will go a long way. > > > > > > I agree. We should condemn Micro$oft's corruption of the standards > process > > > in the strongest terms possible! > > > > > > God bless! > > > > > > --[Manny > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Alternative Information and Opinion at http://www.phnix.net > > > Advocacy blog: http://mamador.wordpress.com > > > Personal website: http://mannyamador.multiply.com > > > --[Pro-Life > Philippines]-------------------[http://www.prolife.org.ph]-- > > > _________________________________________________ > > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
