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In open source gain, Bay State locks horns with Microsoft

Posted by TimSlavin at October 20, 2003

"In a memo sent last month, Massachusetts Administration and Finance Secretary Eric Kriss instructed the state's chief technology officer to adopt a policy of ``open standards, open source'' for all future spending on information technology.

The directive likely wouldn't completely cut out Microsoft from the state's $80 million technology budget.

But it may have been the clearest example yet of a state government taking sides -- against Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft -- in the most important struggle in the software industry." An Associated Press story posted on SilconValley.com.

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