Further to our earlier discussions, it seems that Massachusetts is likely to approve Microsoft's OOXML.
More here: http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9026082&intsrc=hm_list And of course, comments on Slashdot: http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/03/0255201 A shame, really, that a government can be fooled simply by the inclusion of the word "open" in the title. From the article: "Open XML does meet our established criteria for an open standard," said Bethann Pepoli, the state's acting CIO, in an e-mail to Computerworld. "There is industry support for Open XML and we believe that by adopting the standard we will be able to accelerate the pace of migration to XML document formats." Industry support? When only one company can generate the format properly, I'd hardly call that support... Hopefully they see the light on this one before it goes through. Evan _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
