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Open Standards Initiative Fails in Massachusetts

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the after-much-ado dept.

walterbyrd writes "Massachusetts has decided to use Microsoft's Open-XML standard. This decison: 'stands in sharp contrast to the positions taken by predecessor CIOs Peter Quinn and Louis Gutierrez, backed by then governor (and now-presidential hopeful) Mitt Romney. Both Quinn and Gutierrez insisted on including only "open standards" in the ETRM, and withstood significant pressure from Microsoft to give ground and accept OOXML...'"

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  1. Government is the wrong power of choice by bl8n8r · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They should have taken a vote on what people wanted.

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