Response to Microsoft's clarifications

The [:http://savekannada.googlepages.com|SaveKannada campaign] coordinating team [:http://savekannada.googlepages.com/responseto%22clarifications%22givenb…|has responded to the lame clarifications] given by Microsoft on [:http://www.hindu.com/2007/10/14/stories/2007101459780500.htm|14th October] after [:http://ismail.in/the-hindu-october-12-2007.pdf|this article appeared in The Hindu]. The response put up urges Microsoft to get into the specifics rather than generalizing the excuse.

As per the letter of intent, Microsoft is providing consultants, tools and the platform. Providing platform is synonymous to ensuring life long dependency to the company providing it. Data migration, migration of software to other platforms, standards is complex and expensive. Most Microsoft tools are platform dependent and most formats they encode data in have been proprietary and their license forbids the formats to be used on other platforms. In India, the government is the largest buyer of software. Microsoft is laying out a trap for the governments by binding them to its platform. Favouring just one proprietary platform could have dangerous consequences.

Read the complete response here.