User: raj0_

Re:on the openness of OOXML

On: India Votes Against OOXML

Microsoft is working hard on making OOXML as open as it needs to be in order to meet the requirements of the relevant decision-makers. So why do you think they started creating their own format in the first place? Why should you create another format if there already is an open one? You definetly don't take this struggle if you want to allow everybody else to use it; but rather to save the monopol in the word processor sector.

But if you think that ODF can survive in competition against OOXML if both are ISO standards As this will never happen I would not worry about it. And of course it could survive. Many state organisations already use ODF... They sure will convert all their docs to OOXML if it becomes an ISO standard^^