ODF - Oh My Word

In the red corner:

So what about the OpenDocument Foundation? We fall into the middle area of trying to perfect the conversion to XML regardless of the fact that our two groups have the world caught between a rock and a hard place.

And in the blue corner:

The OpenDocument Foundation seems to try to clothe themselves in the mantle of the open source community and pontificate on how the big bad vendors treat interoperability. But are they speaking as a non-profit or as a vendor? Take their DaVinci plugin, for example. Where is the source code? Why isn't this open source? Are we to follow the Foundation's claim of 100% interoperability, based on blind faith, without seeing some proof in the form of working code? I've been working on document conversions and document file formats of one kind or another for almost 20 years. I've never seen 100% fidelity conversions of anything but trivial formats. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. But we have nothing here, just white papers from two guys without a garage.

Ouch. Who would have thought document standards could be such fun?