It's Final - MA Goes With Open Document
As you can read on GrokLaw, it is now final that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will only produce and accept documents in OpenDocument formats.
This is great news for KOffice, the first office suite in the world to announce support for Open Document. True, the support is not complete, but we will do all that is in our power so that the next version 1.5, will have complete support for it in KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, Kivio, Karbon and KChart.
It will be very interesting to see what Microsoft decides to do about this. If it was only Massachusetts themselves that was in the pot, I don't think they would care. However, columnists and bloggers all over the field agree that many, many other states and countries are watching this and preparing to do the same. So the stakes here could be the total domination that Microsoft has had in this area of the IT industry.
Not to let KOffice miss this chance to be in the limelight, I have written an open letter to Alan Yates, the manager who signed the reply from Microsoft about the issue. In that letter I correct a factual error (bad research or lie -- you decide) and also make some nice advertising for KOffice. It will appear on the dot as soon as it is back up, and danimo has promised me that it will also appear on slashdot, osNews and other prestigious news sites.
This is great news for KOffice, the first office suite in the world to announce support for Open Document. True, the support is not complete, but we will do all that is in our power so that the next version 1.5, will have complete support for it in KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, Kivio, Karbon and KChart.
It will be very interesting to see what Microsoft decides to do about this. If it was only Massachusetts themselves that was in the pot, I don't think they would care. However, columnists and bloggers all over the field agree that many, many other states and countries are watching this and preparing to do the same. So the stakes here could be the total domination that Microsoft has had in this area of the IT industry.
Not to let KOffice miss this chance to be in the limelight, I have written an open letter to Alan Yates, the manager who signed the reply from Microsoft about the issue. In that letter I correct a factual error (bad research or lie -- you decide) and also make some nice advertising for KOffice. It will appear on the dot as soon as it is back up, and danimo has promised me that it will also appear on slashdot, osNews and other prestigious news sites.
posted by ingwa at 4:41 PM
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