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[News] South African Rejects Microsoft's Document Shackles

  • Subject: [News] South African Rejects Microsoft's Document Shackles
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:49:17 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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.   
| 
| "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


Related:

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.  
| 
| 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.  
| 
| 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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