Hello Friends/Community,<br><br>Well what i felt like after reading this letter is "hey i dont like to be part of this group, i will start another group". I dont think it is a good idea to start a group for each purpose if one group can serve the purpose.<br>
<br>ISO is a standards organization and be it for business or anything, it shouldn't have made such a mistake. And even if it has made a mistake, as a member of the community i think it is our duty to correct it. ISO standards are followed everywhere and our aim is to spread Free Software, people should be Free and how can we keep quiet on seeing such a mistake where people can be misled. Our aim is not to create double standards, and creating another group/standard is equivalent to that.<br>
<br>We fight to get justice, people cannot be misled by a mistake caused by an Organization. If it is not us, then who will do it?<br><br>Please see <a href="http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions.pdf">http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions.pdf</a><br>
<br>Find mail from <a href="mailto:ck.thrissur@gmail.com">ck.thrissur@gmail.com</a> below:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>Anoop Jacob Thomas<br>Trivandrum, Kerala (<a href="http://www.ilug-tvm.org">www.ilug-tvm.org</a>)<br>
<br><i>On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:27 AM, CK Raju, Thrissur <<a href="mailto:ck.thrissur@gmail.com">ck.thrissur@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></i><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<i>Dear RMS,<br>
I think its futile to chase ISO anymore. We would only land up<br>
spending our own creative energy which we can't afford to at this<br>
pace.<br><br>
" * Market-driven<br><br>
ISO only develops standards for which there is a market requirement.<br>
The work is mainly carried out by experts from the industrial,<br>
technical and business sectors which have asked for the standards, and<br>
which subsequently put them to use." .. in their own words at<br><a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/about/discover-iso_the-iso-brand.htm" target="_blank">http://www.iso.org/iso/about/discover-iso_the-iso-brand.htm</a><br>
<br>
Why should Free Software Foundation and other like minded<br>
organisations allow ISO to take over software standards and make it -<br>
only *market-driven* one ?<br><br>
Its not difficult to realise that the *very conditions* that<br>
necessitated a Standards Organisation to be promoted, are now<br>
prevalent and omnipresent.<br><br>
Why not create another organisation that develops standards for the<br>
common world citizens to communicate with freedom ?<br><br>
Shouldn't we ask ourselves now about this, and try to define the<br>
*framework* that would set in motion a new organisation which would be<br>
able to come out with Free/Open Standards after *defining* them in as<br>
unambigous terms as possible ?<br><br>
CK Raju,<br>
MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram<br>
Kerala,<br>
India<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>--<br>Anoop Jacob Thomas (<a href="http://www.ilug-tvm.org">www.ilug-tvm.org</a>)<br>