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Romney Continues ODF Support With New Appointee

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sounds-like-a-platform-to-me dept.

Andy Updegrove writes "There is a major new development in the ongoing saga in Massachusetts over implementation of the OpenDocument Format (ODF). Governor Mitt Romney has named a permanent successor to former State CIO Peter Quinn, utilizing the entire press release announcing his appointment to underline the fact that the new CIO, Louis Gutierrez, would not only be charged with implementing the ODF policy, but that his past experience was uniquely suited to that task. Moreover, the press release goes out of its way to note that implementation of ODF is still on target for an effective date of January 1, 2007."

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  1. Long day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is getting out of hand. Mitt Romney is advocating Open Source software and shunning Microsoft. Wikipedia says that MA Democrat Marty Meehan is sleeping with Ken Mehlman. John Siegenthaler trying to discredit James Frey. I'm so confused. Bill O'Reilly, Please Save Me. Slashdot, I wish I knew how to quit you...

  2. Taxes in Mass? by satcomdaddy1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are the taxes like in Mass., anyone know?
    Seems like it might not be a bad spot to relocate to, unless, of course, your field is hardlinked to proprietary document formats!

  3. Re:ODF, Romney, and pro-tech presidental candidate by Sr.+Zezinho · · Score: 2, Funny

    -1 , Staffer.

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  4. Speaking of statehood... by peterfa · · Score: 4, Funny

    I live in Washington State, you know, the land of Redmond. It's nice of our Eastern fellow state to take a look at ODT format. However, you must pitty us. We're never going to see the light of OSS in our lifetimes...
    I guess the sun sets in the West and rises in the East. I guess evolution obeys time zones too.

  5. Re:Why Gutierrez? by AnotherDaveB · · Score: 2, Funny
    The introduction says that Gutierrez is good for this job because of his past experience, what is his past experience and why does it make him the best candidate for this job?

    If you need someone to read the article for you, it's possible you won't be able to understand the explanation :-)

  6. ODF on its way by digitaldc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Moreover, the press release goes out of its way to note that implementation of ODF is still on target for an effective date of January 1, 2007

    They got on a horse and rode through town and declared, "The ODF are coming, the ODF are coming!"

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  7. Re:Hooray!! by Verteiron · · Score: 3, Funny

    a mandatory death penal for whistling the latest Britney Spears

    Actually, I rather like this idea.

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