Miguel,
You fail to notice the very important point of the standard being broken by design: referring/pointing to unspecified behaviour (references to "the way Word95 does this or that" come to my mind).
You acknowledged that it has indeed happened that the specification needed more detail when you say that you've made Microsoft engineers amend the specification to include formulas documentation.
I do not blame them. OOXML is a superb standard and yet, it has been
FUDed so badly by its competitors that serious people believe that
there is something fundamentally wrong with it. This is at a time when
OOXML as a spec is in much better shape than any other spec on that
space.
If you add the two previous paragraphs together, you'll see that the standard is broken now and it has been broken in the past, too. So I don't really understand why, on the basis that it's really simple to implement the "standard" by Microsoft, you go on and assert that it's "superb". Well, it's "superb" for them, that's for sure.
So there you have it, a mouthful of personal opinions. I bet you wanted to spend your time doing something else, like making out with your girlfriend (haha, just kidding, if you actually reading my opinion on OOXML you have no girlfriend to make out with).
I'm really disappointed that you feel the need to ruin the discussion with this kind of nonsense.
Some people, including myself, are very happy with their wife and children, and have a fulfilling social life. Some people, like me, are concerned about topics like:
* how are documents going to be stored for years to come;
* how governments, companies and people will cope with locked-up formats, expensive office suites and/or OSs required to access their own information, or information they should be freely entitled to access;
* how people that contributes/contributed to FOSS in the past think, and how their doings may affect the future of FOSS and their users;
So, even if I'm finding your opinions very different to my own, I don't like being treated without respect.
To be honest, I expected better from you. Oh, well...
Or maybe you disregard your own opinion as something without any true value, something you produce for the masses as void entertainment.
