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- Mass. to stay the OpenDocument course despite CIO's departure
- OASIS general counsel Andy Updegrove blogs: Only a few blog entries ago it was my sad lot to report that Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn had resigned, leaving the fate of his effort to mandate use of the OpenDocument format ODF hanging in the air. Tonight, I'm pleased to...
- Blog posts 2006-01-04
- Politics and the perversion of standards
- Sometimes, fact is just a better read than fiction. I promise you, if you have any interest in technology standards ....any interest..-- or if you have been paying any attention to the OpenDocument Format ODF saga as it unfolds in Massachusetts -- that the word for...
- Blog posts 2005-11-07
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- Mass. to stay the OpenDocument course despite CIO's departure
- Mass. to stay the OpenDocument course despite CIO's departureOur hero?The mistakes Mr. Quinn made as a politician and as part of the executive branch of the government of MA might well help produce an outcome he wouldn't approve.That outcome, even the current situation reported from MA, can have a strong...
- Discussion threads 2006-01-04
- It's not about OpenDocument vs MS. It's about open standards.
- In his response to my blog about how open source legal expert Larry Rosen gave his blessings to Microsoft's newest terms for implementing its file formats in third party software, a ZDNet reader asks "David: Why can't you just admit MS did the right thing?" In his comment, he...
- Blog posts 2005-11-29
- Massachusetts open source fight becomes partisan
- Is the battle over the OpenDocument format in Massachusetts becoming a partisan battle? If it is, Microsoft is allied to the Democrats. As all open source aficionados know Massachusetts has become the epicenter in the battle for open document formats. If the state mandates use of OpenDocument, starting in January,...
- Blog posts 2005-11-27
- Auditor inquisition could determine ODF's fate in Massachusetts
- At a hearing yesterday in room 437 of the venerable State House in Boston, Mass., a Commonwealth Senate oversight committee chaired by Senator Marc R. Pacheco opened yet another chapter in the ongoing saga of Massachusetts' Enterprise Technical Reference Model -- a blueprint for the state's information technology, authored by...
- Blog posts 2005-11-01
- Democracy and standards
- David Berlind recently completed an interesting in-depth analysis of the events that led to Massachusetts decision to jettison Office XML from its approved list of document standards. Assuming the decision stands, this will affect a lot of people besides workers at government agencies. Contractors that work for the state...
- Blog posts 2005-10-17
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