Re: OT: Massachusetts Verdict: MS Office Formats Out

[Fred Smith]

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! :-)