Massachusetts Decision in favor of Open Document Format
Last week David Berlind wrote The History of the Massachusetts OpenDocument Decision, where he describes dramatically how he sees the story unfolded this year. He started:
Warning. If you read any further, you will find yourself at ground 0.0
of the biggest battle the computer industry has ever seen. It is where the
biggest warriors from the proprietary software world, the open standards
world, and the open source world are engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
The war metaphor continues through the article and the importance is
high. Massachusetts makes greater software sales than some tiny
municipality where this battle has played out before. Not only will the
state be at stake but the numerous contractors and organizations that
do business with the state. Massachusetts has a very large number of
educational institutions so the use could spread to education.
Also a podcast on the same topic.
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