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artikel in de Sydney Morning Herald:
"There is, as they say, a pattern here. And not just here. Microsoft's behaviour over OOXML is consistent with its previous behaviour - its well-documented refusal to play by what most of us would regard as the normal rules of civilised behaviour.
It is possible to argue against OOXML on technical grounds, and many have. It is so large and unwieldy as a standard (6000 pages of documentation) that it is hard to see anyone adopting it by choice (as one open source adherent succinctly put it, it has a community of one). ODF is by comparison an elegant standard that, if adopted by Microsoft, would have unified the world's document formats to everybody's advantage, even Microsoft's. The company does not seem to realise that standards are a Good Thing, that its behaviour is boorish in the extreme and that the short-term advantage it has gained from its victory will bring it no benefit in the long run. It's the way of bullies - they just can't help themselves and they never learn."