Open standards beat Microsoft 13 to 4
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| Yvonne Ndhlovu of SABS, who acted as project leader for the local leg of the
| process, informed Tectonic that the votes amounted to 2 votes of yes, with
| comments; 2 votes of yes, without comments; and 13 votes of no, with
| comments.
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| "South Africa will vote no," she said, referring to the international voting
| to take place.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1641
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Open Tuesday addresses document standards
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| As Bailey emphasised, the issue at stake is not one of fighting against
| Microsoft, but rather fighting for the rights of the user to be able to
| access documents without them becoming obsolete.
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| Among those attendees were some other members of the committee and something
| of a strategy meeting developed, with ideas being shared as to how best to
| obtain community input.
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| What emerged was that bombarding the SABS with petitions would not benefit
| the cause and would merely further irritate those involved.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1628
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