“As has been widely reported, including in this blog (see, for
example, The Fix is in on ODF and A Nasty Little Turf Battle on
Beacon Hill), an amendment was recently added to an economic bill
in the Massachusetts Senate that would, if enacted, transfer
control over most meaningful state IT decisions to a new
politically appointed ‘task force.’ The bill to which that
amendment is attached has not yet been adopted, but may be early in
the New Year, if not sooner.“On November 16, General Counsel to the Commonwealth’s
Information Technology Division (ITD) Linda Hamel released a legal
brief substantiating State CIO Peter Quinn and the ITD’s legal
authority to adopt ODF…”
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