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OpenDocument standard reaches state government



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/

PDF is considered ok.  Justification from the FAQ:

"Adobe PDF is owned by Adobe but is licensed under a royalty free, extremely open, nondiscriminatory license."

-- 
Bob Gorman
bob at rsi.com
Court Technology Consulting





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