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Story: ISO calls for end to OOXML 'personal attacks'

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Posted by: ijames (Thursday 17 April 2008, 1:22 PM)

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Yes! Microsoft must be stopped!

Great points! Microsoft is a business. No gigantic monopoly deserves welfare! But more than that, because of their position as de-facto standard, we actually must do more. We must fight Microsoft's stranglehold on the world of computing. We must make it more difficult for their tools to pervade.

It will be painful, but it's that good kind of pain; the kind that says we're moving to a better, brighter future. Like working out at the gym, or spring cleaning, or well, using a Mac. How many hours would the world have saved if they weren't wasting precious processing cycles on virus scanning and reboots?

To accept OOXML is to live in the dank slimy hell of bureaucracy. To shaft ourselves. To fight it and push for clean and implementable standards is to boldly and generously begin an adventure into a brighter successful and enormously more effective future.

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