> and you decline to use them because they're in a ubiquitous proprietary format, you are maybe missing the free-software forest for the trees. I didn't declin

> and you decline to use them because they're in a ubiquitous proprietary format, you are maybe missing the free-software forest for the trees. I didn't decline to use them. I suggested that it would be nice if these documents were in a format that was more open. Perhaps something with a half-life of 10 years. I didn't mention it before, but I've noticed that in Office for Mac 2008(7? whatever) the default file format is .docx. OOXML to my knowledge is now a standard, so it seems as though Microsoft is _trying_ to play nice with others. However, there's already another standard, OpenDocument.