Dan Geer writes:

No more: "Somebody upgraded, so now everyone has to." By making the "public" in "public record" mean something, Massachusetts gets better accessibility, plus competition–not a sole-source provider.
Perspective:  Massachusetts assaults monoculture By Daniel Geer c|net news.com Published: November 29, 2005, 4:00 AM PST

Mass. is requiring state documents to be in an open format (OpenDocument) reaadily accessible via multiple vendors’ word processing software, not to mention by OpenOffice, an open source office suite.