“My topic tonight is a set of RFI responses that surely must be
an oxymoronic first: they make fascinating reading(fascinating? RFI
responses?). Moreover, they offer the opportunity to go on
something of an Easter egg hunt for anyone that wants to pick and
prowl through them looking for this surprising bit of information
or that, or who wants to weigh what is unsaid (and guess why) as
much as to assess what has been claimed, and whether the respondent
can actually deliver. Oh–and there’s the occasional polemic thrown
in as well.“What’s all this about? Well, as I reported in early May, the
Massachusetts Information Technology Division (ITD) posted a
‘Request for Information’ (RFI), soliciting information on plugins
to convert documents created in ODF compliant formats into Office
documents.
Related Story:
Groklaw:
OpenDocument Foundation to MA: We Have a Plugin(May 04,
2006)