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Allison uses the analogy to HD-DVD vs BluRay to illustrate the disadvantages of "competing standards" and then reports on his impressions from reading ECMA's responses to the filed comments: "In some cases they did resolve the problems, in others they pushed back and claimed there was no original flaw, but for the most part they were remarkably open to adding extra features which seemed to resolve the issues. So much so that I began to realize two things. Firstly that ECMA was willing to say yes to almost anything in order to get OOXML passed as a standard. Secondly, that the things they were pushing back on and were saying "no" to were any modifications to the specification that would mean a change to the existing Microsoft implementation of OOXML."