GNOME and OOXML

*shrug* 

All I know is that Microsoft rules the desktop and rules the office suite markets. What they
choose is what is going to get used the vast majority of people. 

That's the reality and that is the power that Microsoft has gotten for winning the 'lock-down'
on those markets. (no matter how dishonestly) There is no if's and's or but's about it. 

Gnome and OpenOffice.org, one way or another, is going to have to be compatable with OOXML.
The choice is to do that, or to loose whatever relevence they've gained in the market place
over the past few years.

Sure, sure I'd prefer ODF for everything, but there is a lot of other things in the world I'd
like also that isn't going to be changed anytime soon. (at least not in the next 2 year
timeline)

If Migal or Novell or whoever, buy working with Microsoft can make OOXML work on the Linux
desktop then they are doing all of us a big favor, no matter how distastefull it is.

And if they are able to pull it off... then OOXML may work out as a standard after all and
everybody here gets exactly what they want; which is cross-platform document handling.

If they can't pull it off, even after all the hard work, honest effort, strife and the patent
bullshit... then that will prove to the world just how worthless OOXML is and Microsoft
shouldn't be listenned to when trying to establish standards.

I mean it's one thing to stand there and talk about how shittastic OOXML is and how ODF should
be used.... But it's another thing to PROVE that OOXML is shitastic by implimenting the
'standard' correctly according to the documentation and still failing miserably.

Either way it's probably going to end up being a win for the Open Source desktop as long as
they (the Gnome folk) are working hard and are taking a honest and open approach.