“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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