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    The Massachusetts Senate has introduced a provision to an economic stimulus bill that endangers a state decision to standardise on the OpenDocument format.

  • OpenOffice nears download milestone

    The open source productivity application OpenOffice.org has been downloaded almost 50 million times since the project was started, according to the company that founded the project, Sun.

  • One city's move to open source

    In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.

  • Office standards battle grinds on

    Standards body Ecma International has created a committee to standardise Microsoft Office document formats, handing the software giant a victory in an intensifying struggle over desktop software.

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