India Decides to Vote "No" For OOXML

Indian writes to mention that after an intense meeting at Delhi's Manak Bhawan the 21-member technical committee has decided to vote against Microsoft's Open Office Extensible Mark Up Language (OOXML) standard at the September meeting of the International Standards Organization (ISO). "Microsoft said it respects the government's decision. 'There were only three options "Yes", "No" and "Abstain" to be taken and we respect the government's decision,' Microsoft's legal affairs head Rakesh Bakshi said. He, however, added that India's 'No' vote will become a 'Yes' if Microsoft is able to resolve all technical issues with OOXML before the ballot resolution committee of ISO."

Comments

minor gripe

[farlukar]

Office Open XML, not Open Office

Details on Indian campaign

[anivararavind]

Some quick links on Background of this campaign:

ODFAlliance India Mirror on Wordprocessing-ML subcommittee discussions

Issue List submitted to the Technical Committee by the WordProcessing ML Sub Committee

Why ECMA OOXML is not a Free Document standard :Paper By Dr. Nagarjuna

My Earlier Post : Defeat M$ efforts to push Ecma OOXML in Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Economic Times Report says

"We unanimously agree on the disapproval of OOXML with comments. The same will be submitted to ISO," National Informatics Centre head and BIS technical committee chairperson Nita Verma said after a marathon meeting that lasted over six hours. There was no need for a voting as only Infosys Technologies and CSI supported Microsoft.

Shame on You Infosys

Re:Is ODF really much better?

[Twinkle]

ODF is fully specified, OOXML is not.

There's no comparison, ODF is a complete description of a document, OOXML has things like "use word 95 rules" or "important undocumented binary blob here". OOXML is a Trojan horse.