On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:33:37PM -0400, Temlakos wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > >Fajar Priyanto wrote: > > > >>The future is forming up.... > >> > >>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1863060,00.asp > >> > >>The state of Massachusetts Friday made it official: It will use only > >>nonproprietary document formats in state-affiliated offices effective > >>Jan. 1, 2007. Although state CIO Peter Quinn has said repeatedly that > >>this issue does not represent "the state versus Microsoft Corp. —or > >>any one company," adoption of the long-debated plan may result in all > >>versions of Microsoft's Office productivity suite being phased out of > >>use throughout the state's executive branch agencies. > > > > > >Or MS could "open" its document format... > > > >[snip] > > > >Mike > > Not in a hundred years will MS do any such thing. > > Actually, the Massachusetts decision is a bigger boon to the OpenOffice > project than to Linux alone--because after all, OpenOffice is available > in any OS you can name. To play devil's advocate: MS-DOS, Apple-DOS, RT-11, VMS, RSTS-11, AIX, Xenix,... I don't think it runs on those! :-) -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good. ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:3 (niv) -----------------------------
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