OT: Massachusetts Verdict: MS Office Formats Out
fredex
fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Wed Sep 28 23:29:40 UTC 2005
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:33:37PM -0400, Temlakos wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> >Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> >
> >>The future is forming up....
> >>
> >>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1863060,00.asp
> >>
> >>The state of Massachusetts Friday made it official: It will use only
> >>nonproprietary document formats in state-affiliated offices effective
> >>Jan. 1, 2007. Although state CIO Peter Quinn has said repeatedly that
> >>this issue does not represent "the state versus Microsoft Corp. —or
> >>any one company," adoption of the long-debated plan may result in all
> >>versions of Microsoft's Office productivity suite being phased out of
> >>use throughout the state's executive branch agencies.
> >
> >
> >Or MS could "open" its document format...
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> >Mike
>
> Not in a hundred years will MS do any such thing.
>
> Actually, the Massachusetts decision is a bigger boon to the OpenOffice
> project than to Linux alone--because after all, OpenOffice is available
> in any OS you can name.
To play devil's advocate:
MS-DOS, Apple-DOS, RT-11, VMS, RSTS-11, AIX, Xenix,...
I don't think it runs on those! :-)
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