India Vots No to OOXML with Comments

Dr. Nagarjuna Writes in FSF-Friends List

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.

Venkitesh Hariharan also reports it.
Todays Economic Times & business standard picked up the story.
ET 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.

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)

Update:
Brazil also Decided No to OOXML yesterday:-)

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