Open Letter to Alan Yates of Microsoft
Submitted by iwallin on Sat, 2005/09/24 - 3:47amIn his reply to the Massachusetts decision to use only documents in OpenDocument format, the Microsoft manager Alan Yates writes:
(paraphrased) Star Office, Open Office, KOffice and IBM Workplace are all derivatives of the same codebase. Thus there is only one program that supports Open Document, and that is illegal.