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1. There is no year 0. The year before year 1 was 1 BC.

OOXML isn't open due to the poor quality of the specification. Where the specification is vague or completely undefined it means that defacto standards will step in and that's how Microsoft Office maintains its monopoly. Here's my list of example remaining problems in OOXML that will result in the ISO promoting a defacto commercial application, Microsoft Office.

Sample Remaining Technical Issues in OOXML.pdf

I agree. We're back to where we were a year ago only now with a lot more awareness of the office monopoly and how much money is wasted.

Here are two reports on OOXML that I recently released, one (PDF, 0.9MB) and two (PDF, 0.8MB).

I agree. We're back to where we were a year ago only now with a lot more awareness of the office monopoly and how much money is wasted.

Here are two reports on OOXML that I recently released, one (PDF, 0.9MB) and two (PDF, 0.8MB).

Nice, and the pictorial view they link to gives you a nice "yay" or "nay" running result.

Well you're not missing much because the 662 responses are mostly grammatical fixes and the big stuff is yet to come. Read the country comments at iso-vote.com/comments

Yes, the BRM in Geneva will be interesting.

Unfortunately I think they'll win too unless IBM/Sun start playing dirty too. The reason I think they'll win is that OOXML (DIS29500) only needs a few countries to change their votes.