The reality though appears to be different, it seems that this is all about the commercial and competitive position of IBM, and probably a couple of other well known corporations who have yet to step into the light.

At the end of the day the IBM’s engineers can argue for one thing, but the business will make its decisions based upon customer and market demand.

It will be entertaining to look back on this whole process 10 years from now, maybe then will we know the real roles of the various participants.

As for the question of who has a right to play a role in the debate… well, it is an open debate playing out both in the marketplace and within ISO, so all voices are valid. Employees of Microsoft, Sun and IBM, my uncle fred, my uncle fred’s tennis partner, the chap I met as I got off the tube in London two weeks ago whos name I can’t remember, and anybody else who has a view.

I’ve read Rob’s post and he made clear that none of their products natively supported OOXML right now.

To refute that, you are coming up with an official announcement from someone at IBM saying that IBM will support OOXML.

I’m not sure how that refutes what Rob said.

But I’m sure you have a good reason to say so.

Of course, as a Microsoft employee, I’m not sure how much your voice counts. You can’t be judge and party.

Your blog post itself is extremely confusing to say the least, since you manage to link to completely unrelated blog posts, doing your best to imagine a connection between them.

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