[Leaplist] Texas trying to go ODF for gov. agencies

[Ray Brunkow]

http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/02/06/232236.shtml

Ditesh Kumar <http://ditesh.gathani.org/blog> tips us to a blog entry by 
Sam Hiser noting a bill filed in Texas that would require state agencies 
to conduct their work in an open document format 
<http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/02/news_a_texas_bi.html>. 
After Microsoft's grueling battle against ODF in Massachusetts 
<http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/06/12/04/1822222.shtml?tid=109>, 
bluest of blue states, it must be galling to face te same fight in the 
reddest of the red. Hiser notes that the bill includes a rigorous and 
sound definition of an open document format, which ODF would meet but 
Microsoft's current OOXML submission 
<http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/18/1422243.shtml?tid=164> would not.


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