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Massachusetts Explains Legal Concerns for Open Documents
Tontoman writes "ZDNet is running a story that sheds new light on the decision by Massachusetts to switch to
open formats for the commonwealth's official documents. This issue has previously been discussed on Slashdot, first The Massachusetts Office Party and then
Microsoft Lashes out at Massachusetts IT Decision . From the
article: 'Eric Kriss, Secretary of Administration & Finance for
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, told CRN on Friday that
Massachusetts had concerns about the openness of Microsoft XML schemas
as well as with potential patent issues that could arise in the
future.' The article also quotes a Microsoft executive
on further reason that Microsoft's upcoming Office 12 will not support
OpenDocument."
No, Microsoft Office must not support OO's format, because OO is an evil communistic cancer that must be destroyed!
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
The folks at Redmond must have special paper that lets you print video and audio.
"consensuated"
What the hell kind of word is that?
Do you mean "created by consensus?" "Consensual?" Those are words.
Gack. Verbing weirds language.
Hey big boy, why don't you come up and consensuate with me...
What's wrong with consensuated? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Well, it was funny indeed. The mistake is due to the fact that there is a verb: "consensuar" in Spanish. I meant to create by consensus.
It's worth remembering that a camel is a horse designed by a committee :)
I think the converter already exists and is called OpenOffice.org - works quite well really...
Oh well, what the hell...
The Microsoft rep went on to say that they would be discontinuing support for import/export of ASCII and WordPerfect document formats, to the delight of many professional communities.
Have you ever seen Word "HTML". Perhaps it is a design feature after all.
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