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Massachusetts Adopts Open Standards Strategy

Posted by michael on from the planning-ahead dept.

prostoalex writes "The state of Massachusetts at a meeting of state information officers adopted a broad-based strategy to move to open standards. The strategy does involve Linux among other open standard solutions, while moving away from Microsoft-based platforms is one of the decisions. State Administration and Finance Secretary Eric Kriss insisted that decision was made on technical grounds and had nothing to do with antitrust investigation of Microsoft by the state of Massachusetts."

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  1. Technical decisions... by MongooseCN · · Score: 3, Funny

    State Administration and Finance Secretary Eric Kriss insisted that decision was made on technical grounds...

    Like the virus that got into the government systems recently and caused them all to be shut down? Then again being the state of MA, maybe they thought they could tax the virus to death before it did any harm...

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  2. maybe they'll by mattboston · · Score: 3, Funny

    stop calling us taxachusetts :)

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  3. TP? by RealBeanDip · · Score: 4, Funny

    How long before a bunch of open source revolutionaries are seen dumping Windows CD's into the bay?

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  4. open docs and the mass courts by Brewst3r · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even worse than Word, how about publishing stuff in Word Perfect 6.1 format?