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Texas Bill For Open Documents
Ditesh Kumar tips us to a blog entry by Sam Hiser noting a bill filed in Texas that would require state agencies to conduct their work in an open document format. After Microsoft's grueling battle against ODF in Massachusetts, bluest of blue states, it must be galling to face te same fight in the reddest of the red. Hiser notes that the bill includes a rigorous and sound definition of an open document format, which ODF would meet but Microsoft's current OOXML submission would not.
Contact any of the oil or gas companies in Houston and find somebody who has one or more congressmen attached to their zipper. Big Oil talks. Next up would be go to Austin or San Antonio and try to find the same (not so many, but still useful).In Texas, plain folks talking to a Texas congressman will produce less movement than talking to a corpose.
The Republican Party (note: not just Bush) currently favors the interests of large corporations. Texas is controlled by Republicans. Microsoft is a large corporation. Therefore, Texas supports MS.
Al Gore is on the board of Microsoft. The Democrats also favor large corperations, including the entertainment industry who Microsoft is intertwined with. Therefore, you are an idiot.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Neo-con who gets our country involved in a foreign war in the interest of destabilizing the Middle East and keeping oil prices down
You do know that oil prices (and more importantly oil company profits) are at record levels, right?
Keeping prices down wasn't part of any plan.