FWD [GrokLaw] - It's Final - MA Goes With Open Documents

[Michael ODonnell]

 Friday, September 23 2005 @ 03:00 PM EDT

"It's official.  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has posted on its
 web site its final decision, namely to use only formats that conform
 to the Open Document format for office productivity applications, a
 format Microsoft so far does not support, although they are certainly
 free to do so."
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Article and links available at http://groklaw.net/

I listened to the audio metioned therein and I am happy
(and a bit surprised) to be able to report that Secretary
Kriss sounds like he not only has a clue but could write
a book full of them.  How did a guy like that end up in
government?  Well, at any rate - Yay!