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Texas Bill For Open Documents

Posted by kdawson on from the et-tu-texas? dept.

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.

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  1. Reddest? by greg_barton · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...it must be galling to face te same fight in the reddest of the red.
    Obviously you've never been to Alabama.
  2. Hell frozen over? by DaveM753 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I never thought I'd say something like this, but GO TEXAS!

  3. Check the author by ZPWeeks · · Score: 5, Funny

    It may be Texas, but the bill was filed by Rubén Hinojosa, a Democrat representative from the U.S. House. They'll shoot it down. (unless Cheney misses and hits MS OOXML by accident.)

    1. Re:Check the author by pallmall1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      They'll shoot it down.
      You're probably right. A $500 Million Microsoft datacenter in San Antonio, Texas probably also means Microsoft's OOXML for Texas documents. Ballmer aims his furniture better than Chaney aims his shotgun. :)
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  4. Redundanced of the redundant by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mod -1

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