My Comments to the Mass. ITD on OOXML - Please Send Yours

Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Jul 9, 2007 7:28 PM EDT
ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove
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As I reported recently, the Massachusetts ITD has announced its intention to add Microsoft's OfficeOpen XML specification (now Ecma 376) to its list of approved "open standards," subject to a very short comment period that will expire on July 20. I have great concern that such a decision may be as influential outside of Massachusetts as was the original decision by the ITD in August of 2005 to include ODF, and exclude OOXML. That first decision raised the credibility and visibility of ODF dramatically, and it is fair to say that all of the later successes of ODF were made possible by that decision.

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