On Thursday 23 August 2007 20:04, Nagarjuna G. wrote: > India votes against ooxml unanimously. the decision of the > committee was to disapprove ooxml with comments. The final meeting > took place today after 3pm for about an hour and half, and no > voting took place.
Brasil too rejects OOXML. But Germany "accepts with comments". Thank god India was unanimous no. In M$ world of alternate reality a non unanimous majority no is a yes with comments. With the likes of Narain Murthy talking crap in the ecotimes i was worried about the end result. The argument that competing standards are good should not be debated at all as it is a typicl M$ ploy. The counter has to be the shredding of the proposal that ooxml is a standard. Binary blobs protected by dubious patents and zero reproducability and or verifiability are not standards just examples of bad documentation. Is there a detailed tech analysis of M$ OOXML listed somewhere? -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
