and common sense will prevail in case of EC own dictatorial regulations about banana size and bending, chocolate recipe, prohibition of heating up milk and milky products above 70C during cooking if EU subsidized and served in schools etc...

What's with all these jack-holes thinking the market has turned up good file formats? "The market" is responsible for every company trying to reach vendor lock-in by coming up with their OWN format that does everything that everyone else's does.

Anyone who believes that "the market" produced the MS document format (and that it's better because of competition) clearly isn't aware that they've been bought and paid for by the Microsoft monopoly.

For a private corporation, who cares? It's their money to waste. But in the public domain, open source, open standards, interoperability, and lowest cost are what the taxpayer should be demanding. The fact that there's even a debate over this should shame everyone who's not 100% on board with open solutions for government.

Creds to Neelie Kroes for good work.

The European Commision is a strange creature, the other commisioners seem to occupy themselves with shamelessly pushing tyranny like ACTA on us. That's what we get for instituting an unelected executive body for the EU, I guess.

This a momentous victory for common sense...