AP/CRN: Microsoft Holdout Massachusetts Opts For Open Source
Sep 26, 2003, 15:14 (25 Talkback[s])
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"Massachusetts, the lone holdout state still suing Microsoft
Corp. for antitrust violations, will become the first state to
adopt a broad-based strategy of moving its computer systems toward
open standards, including Linux, the rival operating system to
Microsoft's Windows.
"State Administration and Finance Secretary Eric Kriss said
Thursday that the decision, adopted at a meeting of state
information officers, was made on 'technical grounds' and had
nothing to do with Attorney General Thomas Reilly's pursuit of
Microsoft..."
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