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.

Comments

Is this that big of a deal?

[User 956]

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

Well, given that one third of texas students don't graduate high school, how documents written by their state government are actually coherent enough that the file format makes a difference?

A nice change

[yamamushi]

It's a nice change from the recent mandatory vaccination bullshit that just went into effect. Gov. Perry put mandatory HPV vaccinations into effect, bypassing the legislature. So now all girls 11 and 12, have to get vaccinated. The catch is that only one company is producing the vaccinations, and this company just so happened to donate a lot to Perry's recent campaign. But thats all off topic, I hope something like ODF goes through here in TX.