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.

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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?