On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:21:17 +0530 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > 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 to all those who worked long, worked hard and worked > against tremendous odds to make this happen. [...]
Heartily agreed. This is indeed great news. I was at one of the initial BIS meetings, and the tone there was so overtly pro-Microsoft that this is indeed a monumental achievement. I am sure that there were many people involved in this effort, but the two whose major contributions I am aware of were Venky and Nagarjuna. Hats off to them, and to everyone who did their bit for this. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
