You’ve heard a lot about Microsoft’s embrace and extend technique to screw up a standard. Well this time they’re doing embrace and disgrace by providing a shoddy implementation of the open document format. What bugs me is that the implementation is already written, and free; they had to work to get it wrong. And my bet is that they’re doing this so people using Office think the problem is with the format, discrediting all the work the open source community did.
Go read this: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8691455074.html
And then this:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060720063746488