Warp wrote:
>  Anyways, and to my point finally, what I don't really understand is
> why Microsoft is doing this. If their intention is to create a
> document format which only they can implement fully, why make it open
> at all? Why not keep it completely closed and proprietary?

Denmark and several other countries are committed to using only open 
standards for all government communication within a few years. That's both 
internal government communication and communication between government and 
citizen and organizations as far as I understand. Any electronic format that 
isn't open would be banned. There are similar plans for the EU as a whole I 
believe, though they're not as far progressed. Microsoft not using an open 
format would lead to huge losses for them, so they fight as much as they can 
to convince the deciding organs that their format is an open standard, even 
though they have no interest in it being open at all.

Rune
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