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| DATE | 2003-09-26 |
| FROM | From: "Inker, Evan"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Microsoft Holdout Massachusetts Opts For Open Source
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Microsoft Holdout Massachusetts Opts For Open Source
By Justin Pope, AP
10:26 AM EST Fri., Sept. 26, 2003
Massachusetts, the lone holdout state still suing Microsoft Corp. for
antitrust violations, will become the first state to adopt a broad-based
strategy of moving its computer systems toward open standards, including
Linux, the rival operating system to Microsoft's Windows.
State Administration and Finance Secretary Eric Kriss said Thursday that the
decision, adopted at a meeting of state information officers, was made on
"technical grounds" and had nothing to do with Attorney General Thomas
Reilly's pursuit of Microsoft.
In the technology industry, the term "open standards" refers to
nonproprietary software. Microsoft's software is considered "closed" because
application developers and other programmers don't have free access to the
blueprints.
Kriss said the state's decision was driven by a desire to reduce licensing
fees but also "by a philosophy that what the state has is a public good and
should be open to all," Kriss told The Associated Press. He characterized
the decision as the "most visible concrete action by a state government" to
move toward open standards.
A Microsoft spokesman had no immediate comment.
http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=44768
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