> don't let hate for past monopolies blind you to modern monopolies eitherJust because Microsoft is no longer the monopoly-du-jour, doesn't mean they aren't still a monopoly...
Just because they have been making (successful) forays into open-source, does not mean they won't still fiercely protect (with whatever means at their disposal) their monopoly cash cows (Windows and Office).
The "standartization" of Office Open XML wasn't all that long ago, after all (ECMA in 2006, ISO in 2008).