"Despite all the OOXML scandals that make 6 countries question the compromised process of ISO and IEC and despite the legal threat behind OOXML, Microsoft is still able to confuse enough people to believe that OOXML is an open format. What seems to be obvious to us who follow the development may not be so to the non-technical public. The goal of this post is to bring awareness of the danger of OOXML to more non-technical public by cutting through the confusing technical and legal fog, and by making Microsoft answer directly, in layman's terms, to the two questions: that of openness and that of legality."
