Legislators Wimp Out on Open Document Format Bills
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| As both Peter Quinn and Louis Gutierrez both found out, trying to
| make responsible standards-related decisions where huge sums of
| vendor revenues are at stake is scarcely a career-enhancing pastime.
| CIOs should be entitled to stay out of harm's way, and try their best
| to serve the public's interests the best they can. Where that can't be
| done, legislatures should protect them, and keep them safe from the
| types of unwarranted threats and attacks that Carol Sliwa reported
| on in a series of public-records request-based stories at ComputerWorld
| last December.
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| [...]
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| After the impressive lobbying assault mounted over the past six
| months against open document format legislation, I expect you
| won't be hearing of many state IT departments taking the baton
| back from their legislators.
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| And who can blame them? If they tried, it wouldn't be likely to
| be anything as harmless as an open document format that would
| bite them in the butt.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070610175856704
Related:
Microsoft trounces pro-ODF forces in state battles over open document formats
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| In a resounding victory for Microsoft Corp., bills seeking to mandate the
| use of open document formats by government agencies have been defeated
| in five states, and only a much-watered-down version of such legislation
| was signed into law in a sixth state.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9022878
Packing The Court At The ISO?
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| ...P member countries ('participating member' countries) sending
| representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of
| their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees.
|
| [...]
|
| How can they not see that OOXML (ECMA 376) is unwanted by anyone outside of
| Microsoft? How about it Brian Jones? Are you really so desperate that you
| have to resort to that?
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http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/packing-the-court-at-the-iso/
Q&A: Former Mass. CIO feels 'bittersweet pride' after battles with Microsoft,
legislature
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| As CIO of Massachusetts from February to November last year, Louis
| Gutierrez had to endure most of the brunt of Microsoft Corp.'s political
| wrath over a state policy calling for the adoption of the Open Document
| Format for Office Applications, or ODF -- a rival to the software vendor's
| Office Open XML file format.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012760&source=rss_news50
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| Quinn: Almost to a person, to anybody involved or who knows about
| the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong
| or otherwise. Senator Pacheco may be a bully but I do not believe he
| is disingenious and would stoop to such a tactic. Senator Pacheco and
| Secretary Galvin's office remain very heavily influenced by the
| Microsoft money and its lobbyist machine, as witnessed by their
| playbook and words, in my opinion.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729
MA Governor-Elect Names MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist to Technology Advisory Group
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061128161343183
Bonnie Garcia - Enter the FUD Brigade
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| In opposing California AB 1668, Bonnie spreads a heaping
| helping of fear, uncertainty and doubt by discussing
| wholly unrelated IT projects that failed.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpfu7pwabLY
Bill seeks study of open document formats in New York
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| A bill introduced in the New York state legislature on
| Wednesday would require the state government's IT director
| to study the issue of using open document formats within
| agencies, although the proposal doesn't seek to
| mandate an immediate or long-term move to such formats.
|
| [...]
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| Microsoft also is seeking the ISO stamp of approval for
| Office Open XML, the default file format in its Office
| 2007 software. But the software vendor has fought
| the open formats bills in every state as part of an
| effort to protect its Office franchise.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1431489376&rid=-50
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