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December 18, 2003
OpenOffice in More Government Shops
Posted by Ernest Miller
C|Net News reports that more government organizations, this time in Israel and Texas, are adopting or testing open source desktop software, such as OpenOffice, as an alternative to Microsoft Office software (OpenOffice makes government inroads). This is great news. However, I'm not nearly as concerned that the government uses Microsoft software as that the government organizations are not committed to open formats. Sure, the government should be able to use Microsoft Office software if it is more efficient, but the government should publish and receive documents in open formats. I shouldn't need proprietary software to open a government document properly. I applaud the switch to open source, but I would cheer a firm commitment to open formats.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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