Rune wrote:
> 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.
> 

One of the many reasons that MS is pushing in this direction.  To be 
honest, I think they will succeed.  They have become experts at lobbying 
and turning things to their favor.  There have been very few cases where 
they have not succeeded.  To be honest, I don't really care to see MS 
get stomped - I only would like to see more true competition based on 
quality, not money.  It was nice being able to choose between Quattro 
and Excel or Word and WordPerfect.  In a mono world you are forced to 
eat what ever crap is fed your way.





Tom

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