From: Adam 

Rich Gauszka wrote:

You gotta love the MS SpinMeister style....


"Robertson told eWEEK that Microsoft is looking into this proposed
legislation and will comment more once it has studied that further. But the
company supports customer choice and interoperability and urges governments
to also support these, he said.

"In that vein, we encourage them to adopt neutral technology
procurement practices so that they have the greatest choice among available
technologies, and so encourage competition in the marketplace and get the
maximum value out of their IT investments," he said. "Mandating a
specific document format for government use reduces a government's ability
to communicate with its constituents, make the best use of available
technology, and promote competition and innovation in the
marketplace." "


So mandating is wrong....unless it's MS word of course.......

When did you ever hear protests from MS when various govs/gov depts have
mandated word thus leading to the death of the Lotus & WordPerfect
competition?

& anyway....the idea is to have a single transferable std open text file
formatted as XML free of royalties, patents etc which can then be used for
decades to come so.....mandating is the std way in Gov's/gov depts.

Nice diversionary spin though

Adam

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