CC: crisinfo@comunica.org

Re: [CRIS Info] mass dumps m$ office

>Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:48:47 -0300
>From: Bill McIver <Bill.McIver@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
>To: Carlos Afonso <ca@rits.org.br>
>CC: crisinfo@comunica.org, mistica@funredes.org
>Subject: Re: [CRIS Info] mass dumps m$ office
>
>Via Slashdot.org see also ....
>(Note the response.)
>
>*Your Rights Online <http://yro.slashdot.org/>:
>Massachusetts Explains Legal Concerns for Open Documents
>**Posted by ScuttleMonkey
><https://slashdot.org/%7EScuttleMonkey/> on Tuesday September 06, @06:01M
>**from the battle-lines-are-being-drawn-and-quartered dept.*
>Tontoman writes /"ZDNet is running a story that
>sheds new light
><http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39216391,00.htm>
>on the decision by Massachusetts to switch to
>open formats for the commonwealth's official
>documents. This issue has previously been
>discussed on Slashdot, first The Massachusetts
>Office Party
><http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05/09/01/122247.shtml?tid=3D109>
>and then Microsoft Lashes out at Massachusetts
>IT
>Decision
><http://slashdot.org/mainpage/05/09/03/2214219.shtml?tid=3D109>.
> From the article: 'Eric Kriss, Secretary of
>Administration & Finance for the Commonwealth of
>Massachusetts, told CRN on Friday that
>Massachusetts had concerns about the openness
>of Microsoft XML schemas as well as with
>potential patent issues that could arise in the
>future.' The article also quotes a Microsoft
>executive on further reason that Microsoft's
>upcoming Office 12 will not support OpenDocument."/
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