Texas Legislature Considers Open Document Formats

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 20, 2009 @04:07AM from the rising-tide dept.

An anonymous reader notes that a legislator in Texas has introduced a bill to require open document formats in all state government business. The bill is carefully worded such that only ODF could pass its test as "open." The story is covered by the Fort Worth Star Telegram, which is careful to be even-handed, giving Microsoft's spokesman equal time. A ZDNet blogger notes that the bill, introduced by a Democrat in a state whose politics is dominated by Republicans, faces chances that "...fall somewhere east of slim and west of none."

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Texas Seceding by Hubbell · 2009-03-20 04:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm waiting more for Texas to secede, and take a huge portion of it's neighboring area/people with it. I fully believe that if they did, and the US tried to take it back, Texas would come out with more land than when they left initially.

Shit like the mayor of that Texas town telling the cops to stop investigating an incident with a cop getting shot in the face by an illegal immigrant drug runner among other numerous issues that Texas is at the forefront of giving the Federal Government the middle finger over, I see it as only a matter of time.