Those crazy, whacky Danes

Here's a thought for them...

STOP COMPLAINING - JUST DON'T USE IT !!

AT adds: Err, Denmark?

Pot meet Kettle

To Fred Snark: STOP COMPLAINING, JUST IGNORE THEM !!

Now, to be serious: If It is ISO certified, how do you expect them not to use it? It will be everywhere (like the lame word documents) and people will be FORCED to use it.

And we just cannot ignore all the lobbying (for our american friends, we call it corruption in the rest of the world) that went on.

OOXML did not win because it was a good format; it won because people were "pushed" (to put it mildly) to vote in favor of Microsoft.

it's not that easy

it's not that easy to just not use a file format. If the government decides to publish official documents in this format you have very little choice in the matter.

one purpose of having a standard office file format is so that official documents can be read by everyone, not just now, but in the future. when the OOXML definitions say things like 'be bug compatible with software package X version Y" but doesn't say what that actually means, it's not a standard that can be implemented