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LinuxPlanet: Clear Open Standards Or Ambiguity in Massachusetts?

By Rob Reilly

“Rhetoric warmed up earlier this month as the Massachusetts
Information Technology Division finalized their new open standards
policy, outlining acquisition guidelines for the future.

“The original draft policies have been broken up into three
related documents in an effort to clarify definitions, roles and
responsibilities regarding new information technology systems
acquisitions.

“What is left at the end of the day may be more ambiguity than
answers, if the concerns of a proprietary software lobbyist group
have merit…”

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