Sharing work is easier with an Open Document Format
Many individuals have been using ODF for years, but the open format is also being adopted by organisations, including companies and governments.
We often wish to share electronic documents with friends, colleagues, business or government, and the software application we use to prepare these documents will save them in a particular format.
Any application that later loads the document will also need to be able to understand this format. If an organisation can control the format, and convince people to use it, then they can use this as a very powerful tool to create a monopoly in the market.
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