Massachusetts' CIO defends move to OpenDocument

Posted by tadelste on Nov 2, 2005 7:09 AM EDT
SearchOpenSource.com; By Jack Loftus
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BOSTON -- Open standards and open source software (OSS) got political on Monday when Linda Hamel, the general counsel for the Massachusetts Information Technology Department (ITD), suggested that groups that oppose the OpenDocument file format standard might be influenced by Microsoft.

"If we look at all the groups … in most we are finding Microsoft funds behind that group," Hamel said, although she did make the point to exclude those groups that represented disabled government employees from her criticism.

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