Remember how Massachusetts wanted to adopt an open document standard? No matter how much pressure Microsoft was applying we were stick to our guns.Well scratch that. Massachusetts just added Microsoft's Office Open XML to the … [Read more...]
Patrick/Murray Technology Working Group Takes on ODF and Microsoft
The Patrick/Murray transition team Technology Working Group (that's a mouth-full) has an online community meeting planned for December 11th @ 7:00pm on BMG. How about we start pulling together a list of topics to cover?The diary on … [Read more...]
Will Open Source Software Get a Fair Shot in Patrick’s Administration?
So to have a Microsoft PR guy [who was known to have shilled for MS] on the team is a little tricky here.I am heavily for open source software. I've used Star Office and it's a good program (though I do have MS Office myself). In fact, back … [Read more...]
Open Document, Insert Foot: Explosive interview with former MA CIO Peter Quinn
We've been following with interest the story of former MA Chief Information Officer Peter Quinn, who was the point man behind the Commonwealth's attempt to liberate itself from Microsoft's monopoly by implementing "open" standards on … [Read more...]