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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."
I'm pretty sure Microsoft said that it 'respects' not 'respect's'. Respect doesn't own anything. That said, I'm not sure that Microsoft's enthusiasm is unfounded. If they can bribe Universal and Dreamworks, then bribing India doesn't seem too far fetched.
'Loose' is when your pants are three sizes too big. 'Lose' is when you misuse 'loose'.
OK, this ventures into troll territory, but I really mean it. ODF:OOXML::evolution:creationism. ODF and evolution are both working standards that can be argued and refined. OOXML and creationism are both nebulous descriptions of how things might be that leave out all the information necessary to properly discuss them.
If you believe that evolution is a theory while creationism is a conjecture, then you must also believe that ODF is a standard while OOXML is an internal code document for approximately the same reasons.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
No. Microsoft wasn't trying to push it as a global, open standard until lately, and everyone still complained.
Nice try, though!
evil adrian