[kictanet] ATTN: ICT BOARD MEMBER/S IN THIS LIST( SayNo to OOXML)

[Judy Okite]

Thnx Sir,

Muthoni has put it in the simpliest English, just to add on to answer  Q2

On 3/24/08, John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Judy,
>
> your links are too detailed for the top shots on this list.
> Maybe you or Muthoni can break this down in simple english
> in terms of:
>
> 1. What is this animal called OOXML standard?


 2. What will it mean if Microsoft gets the International
> Community (ISO) to adopt it?



these are but some of the issues we will be faced with:


a) If OOXML is adopted, it leads to a problem of duplicate formats for
document exchange.
b) The cost to the industry of having to support multiple standards would be
a gross misuse of taxpayer's money.
c) It will be fully implemented by M$ only and we all know what this means.
Kind Regards,



Then maybe thereafter you can ask for the Kenyan position.
> Infact it would be good to know if Kenya will be voting in
> Geneva this week on the same. It will be a pleasant suprise
> to know that Kenya will there and have a defendable
> position ;-)
>
> walu.
>
>
> --- Judy Okite <judyokite at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > I have been deeply grieved by the silence that has
> > surrounded,this
> > matter...How do we talk about growth and development in
> > ICT,if we do not
> > talk about software?
> >
> > A few questions that I have for the Board and a response
> > will be highly
> > appreciated:
> >
> > 1.what steps have the ICT BOARD taken in regard to the
> > matter,on the link
> > below.
> >
> > http://www.noooxml.org/
> >
> > having in mind that it is less than a week...to final
> > decision
> >
> > 2.What is Kenya's,position?
> >
> > More voice to this reason
> >
> >
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080312151954507
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> >
> > --
> > Judy Ann Okite,
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> > 'Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about
> > things that matter. '
> > Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Judy Ann Okite,
+254-721237507,+254-734252336
P.O. BOX 2228 00100,
NAIROBI,KENYA.
'Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. '
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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