Massachusetts thumbs it's nose at Redmond:

"...Massachusetts has instructed its chief technology officer to adopt a policy of "open standards, open source" for all future spending on information technology"

Australian IT - US state embraces open source

First of all: to be the CTO of a state - awesome! California Chief Technical Officer has a fantastic ring to it. I gotta find me a better headhunter (I wonder how Ah-Nold says 'technology'?).

Second: So this tells me that Mass. is opening itself up to a lawsuit by our friends up at SCO, no? I'd love to see that - fighting IBM, SGI, and now Mass. Fantastic.