There’s nothing like a good battle to liven up the conversation on the Linux blogs, and that’s just what happened last week thanks to the resurgence in the controversy over OOXML. Following appeals by South Africa, India, Brazil and Venezuela, the fate of OOXML — and indeed standards-making in general — is far from clear. “I think OOXML will cause the greatest wave of change to how national standards bodies conduct themselves that we have seen in the last decade or two,” wrote IBM’s Bob Sutor on his blog.
