Open Document Format Debate -
David Berlind (Executive Editor, ZDNet)
Morgan Reed (Vice President for Public Affairs,
Association for Competitive Technologies (ACT)
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Frank Gilbane - the Background
The Debaters - Morgan Reed and David Berlind
Lobbyist for Microsoft (MS) and Small ISVs
How Much Money Spent Lobbying Open Formats?
MS to Mass: Do you respect IP?
MS Press Release: Mass ODF Plan has failed!
By 2007 only ODF-compliant applications?
Does Massachusetts have any leverage with OASIS?
What if MS OpenOffice was chosen as standard?
Do MS and Internet Explorer encourage non-standard HTML?
References and a Glossary of terms and acronyms
- Tim Bray - Director of Web Technologies for Sun Microsystems
- Eric Criss - was Massachusetts Administration and Finance Secretary
- ECMA - European Computer Manufacturers Association
- ETRM - Enterprise Technical Reference Model (FAQ and Public Comments)
- ISV - Independent Software Vendor
- IP - Intellectual Property
- Jean Paoli - Senior Director of XML architecture for Microsoft
- Peter Quinn - Massachusetts CIO who led the state's Information Technology Division (ITD)
- Peter Quinn resigns - Computerworld
- OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
- Open Document - an OASIS standard
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