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 Make a stand by saving your documents in ODF today. If your application does not support ODF, get one of the ODF supported applications like OpenOffice.org,  KOffice, AbiWord, etc
+'''ODF vs OOXML'''
+Here's a quotation for the ages, from an Alex Brown comment on  Andrew Updegrove's Standards Blog (scroll down) asking Brown if he'd agree that ODF was cleaner than OOXML:
+"I'd go with that. I think ISO/IEC 26300 (ODF 1.0) can be compared to a neat house built on good foundations which is not finished; 29500 (OOXML) is a baroque cliffside castle replete with toppling towers, secret passages and ghosts: it is all too finished."
+Now he tells us. Still, better late than never. And I couldn't have put it better myself. But if it's that bad, why is it an ISO standard? A standard with secret passages is a standard no one can implement unless they have a map and the keys. We don't have either. Only Microsoft does. Thanks, ISO, for this little anticompetitive joke. Courtecy: [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080414181840439 PJ @ groklaw]
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 * [http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/DFE3C11047741AFACC25741F003379BD Microsoft's ISO win may worsen antitrust woes]
 * [http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7561 DE: German Foreign Ministry will not use ISO OOXML]
+===On News===
+* [http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/15/stories/2008041554380500.htm Techies protest proprietary standards; seek policy- The Hindu - April 15]
 ==Campaigners==