California may join rush of states toward ODF
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| A California legislator last Friday introduced a bill that would
| mandate the use of open, XML-based document file formats by the
| state government starting next January. It is the third such
| state-level legislation to be introduced this month.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=it_in_government&articleId=9011948&taxonomyId=69&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/39cyon
Recenly, Texas and Minnesota chose ODF as well. Mass. is no longer the only
US state to watch. Ouside the US, ODF is very popular.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070206/tc_infoworld/85810;_ylt=ArgR69KuVL3osHRtrdcEHKYjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-
Related:
ODF is designed for the future, not the past.
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| And what's with legacy documents? Did we get any problems with the
| legacy binary documents because of not taking the binary
| data/internal data structure approach? A clear no. Why should we?
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_is_designed_for_the
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