[CS-FSLUG] OpenDocument in Massachusetts: War of the Words

[Don Parris]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 12:17 +0800, Alan Trick wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 21:56 -0400, Don Parris wrote:
> > On 5/22/06, Alan Trick <alantrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 14:01 -0400, Don Parris wrote:

<snip>
> > 
> > My follow-up response is coming out tomorrow or Thursday.  Probably
> > tomorrow. I'm calling him a glutton for embarrassment.  Well, it's
> > getting to be really entertaining. ;-)
> > 
> > Don
> 
> Maybe you should be a bit less sensationalist next time. Most of his
> rebuttal was taking advantage of that in order to beat around the bush. 
> 
Thanks.  You make a good point.  Hopefully, my upcoming response will
bring it home quite well.  I'm still picking at him though. ;-)

> You also might want to bring up the fact that they're are OpenDocument
> plugins for MS Office and that it's quite likely that much of the Mass.
> government will still be using MS Office after this switchover.
> 
> And you should let him know that open source has nothing to do with any
> of this and neither does money – it's about freedom. His central point
> – "that it’s bad policy to mandate open source procurement" is wrong.
>                                                           QED
You'll find these points in my upcoming response. :-)

Don
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