October 16, 2007
India and OOXML
I never bothered to check the ballot results, I was just happy that OOXML wasn’t fast tracked. There are innumerable problems with the standard and greater men than I have opposed it. Anyway, I’m just glad to see that the Bureau of Indian Standards (formerly the ISI) categorically rejected OOXML and said they wouldn’t support it unless the proprietary bits (like “linespacinglikeWord95″) were removed from the specification. India is a P-member, so we have no choice but to vote, and when we vote we’ll likely vote against OOXML being accepted as an ISO specification. Fascinating.
Hurrah for standards and freedom.
Posted by roshan.george under Internet, Tech |
Rather old news, isn’t this?
Comment by Marc — October 16, 2007 @ 5:51 pm
Very old. I just never knew that BIS voted against. That’s very sensible, somehow I never expected any Indian Government Agency to be sensible.
Comment by roshan.george — October 16, 2007 @ 6:04 pm
Tell me about it. Microsoft probably forgot to give them the 10 rupees they wanted to vote for them.
Comment by Marc — October 17, 2007 @ 12:46 pm
Ha ha, actually this time they checked it carefully and have real objections and stuff. The ISI is pretty cool.
Comment by roshan.george — October 17, 2007 @ 1:38 pm
Ask them to check the water packets carrying all the fake ISI seals then.
Comment by Marc — October 18, 2007 @ 3:10 pm
Somehow I think that is not their job. Sort of like it’s not the lawmaker’s job to run around enforcing it.
Comment by roshan.george — October 18, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
They’re the enforcing body also.
Comment by Marc — October 19, 2007 @ 5:05 pm