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LibreOffice slams Euro-Office as ‘de facto ally’ of Microsoft
(blog.documentfoundation.org)
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It's not a fine standard. Microsoft filed it with the express goal of preventing ODF from becoming the prevailing document standard, not with the goal of documenting OOXML. It's intentionally obfuscated and kept different from MS Office. It's not a standard it's a red herring.
And Adobe PDFs are not the same as PDF/As and yet somehow the world still turns and PDF readers of all sorts find their way around.
I’m not saying OOXML is a great standard. I’m saying it’s a fine standard for the specific purpose of having a format that Microsoft can no longer claim IP rights over, so that should Microsoft suddenly feel pressurised to remove Office functionality from Europe, Europe still has a workable solution that’s compatible and interchangeable with the 99.9% of all editable document files sent around.