On 9/11/07, Harish Pillay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following is has information about an article in the Malaysian
> press about Malaysia going from Disapprove with Comments to
> Abstain on the OOXML stuff.
>
> http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/09/let-market-deci.html
>
> It would be good if there were comments to that blog post.
>
> While doing that, I would like to encourage members on this
> list to write to the CE IDA and the press asking why is it that
> Singapore voted Approve with Comments when the XML TC
> recommended Disapprove with Comments. The fact that at
> the ISO level the vote ended up as Disapprove with Comments
> shows how out of sync Singapore is. It appears that Singapore
> is the ONLY Asian country to vote Yes with Comments.
>
would it be possible to have some sort of a collated page or
"mini-site", wikified or otherwise, where we could collect all of the
"ooxml is wrong", "the decision process is ridiculous" information?
Seems like it would be the best thing to do, or else the message isn't
as clear, or the steps aren't as easy enough for some of us who would
clearly like to help, but don't know enough about the voting process,
or the technical details behind the "standard" (in quotes) to be able
to do so...
-jf
--
In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
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