Thnx Sir,

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


On 3/24/08, John Walubengo <jwalu@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@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,
>
>
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