I am looking at starting a ballot inititive to force the State of Michigan to require the use of ODF format for all documents in all State agencies and courts. This would free us from the bonds of proprietary software product file formats and also open up the possibility of use of programs like OpenOffice.org in the government. The more states that move to this position the more pressure that is on Microsoft to support ODF. As these two come together it opens the playing field in the "Office" market for all players.
I am needing to find some resources to help in figuring out how to start the process then to build the army for the petitions and finally to get it passed. With enough computer geeks and technosavy people we should be able to start an unstoppable groundswell to get it done that even M$ cannot stop. Russell C. Yonkers Jr. CNE, MCSA, A+, CCNA, Linux+, Server+, Network+, Security+ certified ----------------------------------------- Currently using SuSE 10, Mac OS X, Windows 2000, and WinXP And yes I run a network at home with Linux and Windows servers
