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Additional supporting evidence:

> De Icaza endorsed Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document standard,[15][16][17] disagreeing with a lot of the widespread criticism in the open source and free-software community.

OOXML is literally just the binary format of Microsoft Word converted to XML, including legacy compatibility shims going all the way back to MS Word 1.0.

his rational if I remember is compatibility with Word is all anybody normal cares about.

There's a whole class of people that, instead of wanting to build a good future, want to always just be compatible with bad present.