Legislature 2007: State of Florida IT -- open standards
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| As mentioned in my earlier post about the Digital Divide Council,
| there is another issue under discussion in the capital that
| resulted from the demise of the State Technology Office. The
| subject is the way that state government manages IT, which had
| one legislator proposing that the state consider committing to
| open standards.
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http://uf.freeculture.org/2007/04/01/legislature-2007-state-of-florida-it/
Also in the news:
Sirim pulls plug on format fight
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| Standards body Sirim Bhd has stopped a feud between IBM Malaysia
| and Microsoft Malaysia over competing technologies in this
| country.
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| Datuk Dr Mohamad Ariffin Aton, Sirim chief executive, has
| suspended the process for approving the Open Document Format
| (ODF), which is backed by IBM Corp, as a Malaysian standard.
| A competing format is OpenXML, currently used only in Microsoft
| Corp's Office suite of desktop products.
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http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2007/4/4/technology/20070404125811&sec=technology
http://tinyurl.com/2luag5
Related:
Open Standards for Florida vs Microsoft lobbyists
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| Bottom line: Rep. Ed Homan (R-Tampa) tried to get a small paragraph
| added to a general IT bill in the State Senate that mildly favored
| open standards (i.e. ODF etc.) in state IT operations. It was a
| quiet effort, he told me, but still, within 24 hours all the
| State Senators on the appropriate committee had been contacted
| by lobbyists representing Microsoft, who also paid him a visit.
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http://www.openaddict.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=667
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