Trimarco Confirms Mass. ODF Support

Andy Updegrove writes "After Peter Quinn resigned, only two brief statements -- both from spokesman for Governor and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney -- were made to the press regarding whether Quinn's OpenDocument format policy would survive. Both were vague, and both spoke only of the "rules not changing", leaving ODF supporters worried that ODF would be swapped out for Microsoft's XML Reference Schema, even before its expected approval by Ecma. But today, in a private meeting with ITD General Counsel Linda Hamel, Secretary of Administration and Finance Thomas Trimarco assured her that Peter Quinn's departure "will result in no change to the Administration's position on the ODF standard." Trimarco is the public official that will supervise whoever Quinn's replacement will be until after the deadline for the new Massachusetts' policy is to become effective."

Comments

Re:well that's good

[ozmanjusri]

Did you know that BNC conntector on the back of your monitor is a Bayonet Naval Connector?

No, and I suspect Amphenol would be very surprised to hear it as well;

Developed in the late 1940's as a miniature version of the Type C connector, BNC stands for Bayonet Neill Concelman and is named after Amphenol engineer Carl Concelman.

You can read the rest here: http://www.amphenolrf.com/products/bnc.asp

its a troll thread, but this is worth mention

[cHiphead]

Portable Open Office 2.0 weighs in at 144mb (unzipped/installed), giving you the entire suite in portable, usbkey usable goodness, while MS Office 2003 Pro requires 400mb. (Email client missing from open office? Portable Thunderbird weighs in a 9mb unzipped/installed)

Portable OO 2.0 w/ODF + Portable Thunderbird = 154mb

MS Office 2k3 pro = 400mb+ (oh and its not portable and requires activation after each install/reinstall)

Cheers.

Re:No change on ODF

[iccaros]

grammer checker for OpenOffice 2.0 http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool/