Today several news sources reported that Sweden revoked their support for ooxml. This is good news. Not only because ooxml is a Bad Thing, but even more important: there is justice!

In the days before the vote twenty (20!) new companies bought a voting right from the Swedish Standards Institute. That way the vote was very positive for Microsoft. This was caused because all 20 were affiliated with Microsoft.

Yesterday I said to my co-workers: “how can we ever win these types of battles when Microsoft just buys their way in everything?” Today I was proven wrong, the Institute has revoked their support. It is a small step, but it proves Open Source has the future and it makes me proud. Every battle is a battle.