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  • Beyond office document brouhaha

    Let’s cut to the chase in the Massachusetts-Microsoft brouhaha over office document formats. One possible outcome is that Microsoft Office gains support for the OASIS OpenDocument format, either from Microsoft or from the open source community. Another scenario is that Microsoft tweaks its Office XML licensing to conform to the definition of openness that governments are rightly insisting on.

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