On Monday, Jul 2nd 2007 at 15:26 -0400, quoth Andy Oram: =>Massachusetts has just backpedaled on its support for open standards, =>and announced it will accept documents in Microsoft's OOXML: => =>http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/07/how_a_standard_can_kill_a_stan.html => =>I hope this posting will be seen as relevant to the Perl Mongers list, a =>group committed to a particular open source system. => =>The state needs to hear from constituents by July 20. => =>A good summary of the non-open status of OOXML is here: => =>http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/06/achieving_openn.html => =>I'm sure Microsoft has a rebuttal, but I don't believe they've responded =>to this particular document.
Ok. I give up. How do we send a message to the Committee? _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

