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Story: ISO crunch time for OpenDocument

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Peope can read what was written a long time ago on stone or paper but can't read what was written, say, ten years ago because nothing we have that we can use today understands the medium the just ten years old data was written in and written on.

Some progress.

Five options:
- Forget about the past.
- Rewrite everything older into something newer forever and ever (ka-ching).
- Use something that will still work 100 years from now because at any point in time we could ask anyone to solve whatever problem for an apple and a pie without having to worry about laywers, patent holders or whatever breathing down our necks. It's our data so we own it. Not some vendor, patent holder, key keeper or whatever other bully.
- Solve the unemployment problem and revert back to the way of the 1930's. Might actually be cheaper overall even.
- Bend over and think of England, France, whatever.

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