[odf-discuss] OOXML: The next step

[Inge Wallin]

Ok, so we lost the battle this time. But where do we go from here?  I cannot 
imagine that just because we lost one battle, although a big one, the whole 
war is lost.

One idea would be to start lobbying for a conformance test for the ISO OOXML 
standard and try to make it mandatory that the test be performed for vendors 
that say that they adhere to the standard.  That would have the effect of 
exposing MS tactic to define a standard and then not follow it themselves.

If possible it would also be good if the test could show how much of OOXML 
that a certain tool implements so that it is more difficult to say things 
like "200 applications support OOXML" when in reality they only support 2% of 
it.

Thoughts?

	-Inge