The Massachusetts state chief information officer has resigned in the wake of his push for open source document standards in Massachusetts according to C-Net. The article makes it sound as though significant pressure was assert both on him and on his family as a result of his push for this standard. Amazing … what people will do for MicroSoft I guess. Who is putting pressure on him anyway?

In fairness, his decision brought him a lot of scrutiny in other areas, including an investigation into his travel documentation. In the end, he just found it not worth it probably when he lacked support from top administation who decided that Microsoft’s XML format might be sufficient. Whatever the reasons, he certainly got people talking, thinking and discussing the issues.

This article was posted on Thursday, December 29th, 2005 at 3:04 am