OpenDocument standard reaches state government

[Bob BLU]

At 11:47 AM 9/23/2005, Bob BLU wrote:
>At 11:27 AM 9/23/2005, Rich Braun wrote:
>>There was an official announcement yesterday, reported on page E3 of today's
>>Boston Globe, about an initiative many of us have already heard about.  The
>>Commonwealth of Massachusetts has come out cannons blazing against Microsoft,
>>Adobe et al in the battle to eliminate the use of proprietary file-format
>>standards for legal documents in the government's archives.
>
>You can read the docs here:
>
>        http://www.mass.gov/Aitd/

There is some perspective presented here:

        http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/sep05.php#feature