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Story: Legal worries led Massachusetts to open standards

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I'm sick of Microsoft whining that the OpenDocument format isn't good enough. Good enough for what. It's good enough for OpenOffice, for Boeing, for Corel, for IBM, for SUN, for the Australian Archives.

Fact is that Microsoft had every opportunity to contribute to the OpenDocument format to make sure that it was "Good Enough (TM)" but instead they were the only member of OASIS that didn't participate. That's right, every member of OASIS except for Microsoft thinks the OpenDocument format was good enough.

(While were on contributions to file formats, when was the last time a company, individual, organization or goverment body contributed to the MS Office file format in such and open and documented way?)

It also looks like OpenDocument will be "Good Enough (TM)" for the International Standards Organization (ISO). Microsoft tried submitting their file format for ISO approval, but ISO rejected it saying Microsoft would need to change a lot before they would even consider it.

I can't wait for ISO to approve the OpenDocument format as "Good Enough (TM)" Then my government won't have any excuse not to follow in Massachusetts footsteps and choose a file format that doesn't cost me a pretty penny to exchange files with them.

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