� MS-Office schema not as open source friendly as Microsoft says it is | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

� MS-Office schema not as open source friendly as Microsoft says it is | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: "What Massachusetts was concerned about — and rightfully so — is that just like with Adobe's license for the Portable Document Format, any open source developer could develop OXRS-compliant software without being restricted to using a specific open source license — particularly one of the ones with ambiguous language that the open source community has since addressed with newer, more unambiguous licenses. Compared to OXRS, ODF gives open source developers the latitude to pick whatever open source license they want, which is one reason why it passed Massachusetts/ test for openness and why ODF was ultimately selected as a standard format for storing the state's documents."