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Microsoft Eases Licensing On Office 2003 Formats

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday January 15, 2005 @02:28AM from the opening-up dept.

kfiller writes "Microsoft has negotiated a deal with the state of Massachusetts to lower licensing restrictions on the Excel and Word XML formats in Office 2003, in exchange for the state to reconsider their focus on adopting 'open standards' to adopting 'open formats'. Is this just another move to encroach on the open source community?"

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well duh by Izago909 · 2005-01-15 02:30 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Is this just another move to encroach on the open source community?

Short answer.... YES.