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Monday January 29, 2007
Minnesota Will Remember
Last spring there was a great deal of excitement about Minnesota
considering Open Document Format
as part of proposed legislation to mandate that
state agencies use
open data formats.
Sun's Open Source scion, Simon Phipps, consistently advocates open data and makes the case eloquently in Application Development Trends:
The debate over office document formats is nothing short of a battle for our collective memory, says Simon Phipps, chief technology evangelist at Sun Microsystems. Phipps coined the term "corporate Alzheimer's" to describe the drifting file format phenomenon.Finally it appears that there is some movement as new bills have been introduced in the Minnesota House and Senate.
![[S N OOo W]](http://about.openoffice.org/branding/images/OOo_logo_snowing.gif){kind=logo}
![[Star of the North]](http://www.state.mn.us/mn/content_images/seal_mncolor.gif)
So hopefully we can make Open "not just a good idea -- it's the law" and add l'Etoile du Nord to the list of organizations and world governments which promote access to public information for us and future generations.
Posted by tmarble ( Jan 29 2007, 07:00:45 AM CST ) Permalink
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