Groklaw: Microsoft Bends for the GPL to Qualify as Open Format in MA

"I thought you'd want to know that at soon as the new version of the State of Massachusetts Information Technology Division's Enterprise Technical Reference Model was posted, I wrote to Massachusetts to find out the one thing I know we all want to know, which is: Did Microsoft change its license in order to qualify their XML as an Open Format? As you will recall, Eric Kriss, Secretary for the Executive Office of the Administration of Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, when he announced the Open Format on January 14th, said this about their representations to him..."

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