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Yes, WHEN or IF that happened it would be awful. But Massachusetts is only requiring usage of a document format, which Microsoft is perfectly free to add to its list of supported file formats. Microsoft have refused. It shouldn't be hard for them, since Microsoft is an OASIS member. This has absolutely nothing to do with the political interests of a few. Try to open up and print some of your old (say five or six years, even less sometimes) MS Word docs with the current Word. They aren't even compatible with themselves for Pete's sake. Many of the official documents, in real estate, for example, must be readable in fifty, one hundred, three hundred years. It is absolutely impractical to depend on ONE company's interests to meet that standard. So drop the dime store knee jerk pseudo-libertarianism for a second and think it through.

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