Long stupid debate on OOXML and the year 1900 (was: Ecma responses to ISO)

[Nigel Stewart]

>  It actually sounds like OOXML isn't as bad as the C standard,
> because at least OOXML gives you the *option* of not incorporating the
> bug.

	The year is 2007, as nice as it would be to update
	the C standard to fix all these bugs, we're talking
	about OOXML.  If the point of having a standard
	is for interchange of documents, let's leave all
	the MS Word etc hacks behind as legacy, rather than
	entrenching them as "one standard out of many".

Nigel