OpenDocument format gathers steam

Everybody can chip in in this movement. But it takes guts. This is the Lions Cage. How? Simply by starting to use .odf. Where- and whenever you send a document then use the .odf instead of the .doc format. It will be struggle. You'll get feedback like - What's this? I can't read that. Resend in .doc format! Or .pdf. So you do that - this time. Next time you again send in .odf instead .doc format. And you keep pounding, pounding and pounding on it until the feedback turns to... silence. MS Office will eventually support .odf. MS might even try to proprietarize the format - as they did with HTML - for the lockin effect. But if MS doesn't shape up then there'll be 3rd party plugins that behave. Freedom doesn't always come cheap. The reward is getting them MSOffice shackles off and acceptance of Linux with native office packages on the desktop. For now we need to wait for the .odf format to solidify.