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Alex Hudson wrote:
Sean,
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Yes, they are pushing to standardise their XML format. I just simply don't believe it does much to help their monopoly. In the world of office suites, their monopoly is basically total at this point: you can't really improve on 100%.
Are you aware about ODF (and more in general Open Standards) government initiatives around the world?
Do you know that the OpenOffice.org market share is growing and growing up close to the 20% during last couple of years?
Did you ask to yourself why they are pushing OpenXML and why they are lobbying it inside any national standards bodies?
I think this task is *very very* important because we are demostrating we can break the monopoly in *favor of free software*!!!!
Davide