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California has introduced a bill to mandate that government documents be preserved in an open format. It seems that some state governments understand the terrible concept of vendor lock-in.
California has introduced a bill to mandate that government documents be preserved in an open format. It seems that some state governments understand the terrible concept of vendor lock-in.
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The bill was introduced on Friday by Assemblyman Mark Leno, a Democrat from San Francisco, and read on the floor of the state Legislature on Monday. The bill is not yet scheduled for a vote, according to Leno's office, but if passed could go into effect as soon as January 1, 2008. AB 1668's wording particularly excludes the use of proprietary file formats used only by one application, such as those found naturally in Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.