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Massachusetts Explains Legal Concerns for Open Documents

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the battle-lines-are-being-drawn-and-quartered dept.

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."

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  1. Lose not Loose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Lose not Loose

    Lose not Loose

    Lose not Loose

    Lose not Loose

    Get it right.

  2. Re:Anti-Trust?!?! by FreeUser · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "fiddle-while-Rome-burns" president

    Or, indeed, "fiddle-while-New Orleans-drowns".

    I believe that is more correctly:

    "Laze about the ranch in the sun, refusing to meet with the distraught mother of a dead soldier killed in one of his pointless military campaigns, and remaining on vacation while New Orleans drowns" president.

    Which shouldn't be surprising, since he has been on vacation nearly a fifth of the time he has been in office.

    It should be no surprise he supports Bill's monopoly--he and Bush are peas in a pod.

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  3. Re:OO.o format is NOT OpenDoc by Moofie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OK, just because I'm stupid, how do you put a Bezier curved underline in Microsoft Word?

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