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Report: A New Dawn Rising For Open Documents?

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With the filing of a new bill in Oregon, five US states have now taken legislative action around adopting open documents. Still, government agencies in the US lag way behind those in Europe in moving beyond Windows lock-in.

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Comments (3)

dare we hope?

tuxchick ·
This is encouraging. I hardly know how to handle it!
Abe ·
Encouraging indeed but, unfortunately, the article failed to mention that ODF has been an ISO standard and OOXML is not. This is very important to governments and the enterprise.

EU blow to Micro$oft on Window$

henke54 ·
Quoting:Microsoft will be forced to hand over to rivals what the group claims is sensitive and valuable technical information about its Windows operating system for next to no compensation, according to a confidential document seen by the Financial Times.

The group is required to license the technical information to competing groups under the terms of the European Commission’s antitrust ruling issued three years ago. Brussels hopes the order will allow rivals to design server software that runs more smoothly with Windows.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/cea4b0c4-e2e3-11db-a1c9-000b5df10621...

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