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>>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 I don't think that the idea of open standards for documents is anything newer than a few decades or so. I once worked for a company that made its initial fortune doing work with sgml for the department of energy. Or that is at least how the story went as told to me. By the time I worked there they had moved into content management systems for online content. Anyway, a quick google seems to reveal that the DOE still uses sgml. http://xml.coverpages.org/doe-tags.html Besides the obvious opportunity to make fun of big companies that are disliked by many the whole concept is a big yawner. Like so many things, what was old is now new again.
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