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Oregon Eyeing Open Formats
Candace Lombardi, CNET News.com

Oregon has a bill up for vote that would recommend the use of open- source
format documents for state agencies. While the bill would foster open
formats in the state if passed, the wording is much less specific than other
proposed state bills that mandate the use of a specific type of electronic
document. House Bill 2920 by Representative Peter Buckley proposes that
state agencies "disclose public records in electronic form in certain
circumstances and, when practicable, in open formats for which freeware is
available." If passed, the law would also require libraries to offer
freeware for viewing and printing copies of public documents, but only if
the requirement "does not incur additional administrative or operational
expense." Though the XML-based Open Document Format (ODF) supported by IBM,
Sun Microsystems and others, could be used to fulfill the requirements, the
bill's wording as it stands now would not make ODF mandatory. The bill does
say that the open format chosen by the agency or library must be open-source
and guided by one of the major standards organizations such as the American
National Standards Institute, the Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards (OASIS), or the International Organization
for Standardization (ISO), which supports both ODF and Microsoft's proposed
Office Open XML formats.

http://news.com.com/2110-7344_3-6171239.html
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