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Microsoft Is Not Always Chasing a Profit - The company introduces new resources
for nonprofit organizations
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Is-Not-Always-Chasing-a-Profit-89629.shtml
Didn't Microsoft give money to thousands of Indian NGOs for OOXML pressure?
There are always expectations or strings attached.
Examples:
Microsoft influencing partner NGOs to support OOXML in India
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| Microsoft is encouraging its business partners to promote its Office Open XML
| specification (OOXML) to the Indian Bureau of Standards (BIS) and Ministry of
| IT. This move has incensed supporters of the rival OpenDocument Format (ODF)
| who fear that the "soft" Indian state may not be able to stand up to
| Microsoft pressure tactics.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/128528
Microsoft India using NGOs to fake support for OOXML
http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-44038/microsoft-india-using-ngos-to-fake-support-for-ooxml
Microsoft "persuades" NGOs to support OOXML
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| Our friends at Linux Delhi have put up a copy of the form letters that
| Microsoft has been sending NGOs on the OOXML issue. Apparently, these NGOs
| have been sending copies of these letters to the Ministry of IT and Bureau of
| Indian standards.
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http://osindia.blogspot.com/2008/02/microsoft-persuades-ngos-to-support.html
Using NGOs to Push Agendas
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| The extent to which Microsoft can go in its efforts to get OOXML is
| interesting. Microsoft has "persuaded" several non-profit organizations to
| bombard the Indian IT Secretary and the Additional Director General of the
| Bureau of Indian Standards with letters supporting its OOXML proposal. A copy
| of the form letter they have been circulating to NGOs is given below.
| Somebody should interview these NGOs to see how much they really know about
| OOXML and open standards.
|
| The sequence of events leading up to the spamming of GoI? is:
|
| Letter from an NGO thanking Microsoft (name changed to protect their
| identity)
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http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/OpenStandards/MsNgoLobby
IIT Bombay, Microsoft at loggerheads
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| The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, has taken strong objection to the
| fact that despite a "No" to OOXML by a majority of the Bureau of Indian
| Standardsmembers, the software giant "continued to make representations to
| the top Indian leadership (read Ministry of Consumer Affairs), pressuring
| them to change the Indian vote".
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| The BIS represented India as a participating member of the ISO. Its LITD 15
| committee -- of which IIT-Bombay was a part -- was responsible for examining
| OOXML and deciding on a "No" regarding India's position at the ISO.
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http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/may/28iit.htm
Microsoft offered them all lots of money before the first vote in Sept. 2007.
AP reported.
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