> Microsoft absolutely did not do that. They rammed through their proprietary bullshit and slapped an "open standards!" label on it.

We are agreeing, I think. I was saying that the format was not developed as an act of sabotage. Ramming that format through standardization (without, as you note, doing any of the things standardization *should do*) so it could plausibly be labeled an open standard was the act of sabotage, IMO.