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The Massachussetts state government has adopted an open source/open standards policy for IT purchases. Massachussetts was, as I recall, the last holdout state in the MS anti-trust suit, so this is another shot across MS' bow from the state. Watch this whole story unfold nastily over the next few years - and watch politics drive it more than technical merit (and that would be different from the rest of the IT sector how, I wonder?)
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