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Peter J. Quinn, an
Peter J. Quinn, an information technology
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(IT) worker, was chief information officer (CIO) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...
from September 2002 through January 2006. He is noted for his controversial support for OpenDocument
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, a standard format for office documents (ISO/IEC 26300).
Quinn established a requirement that all state government documents be formatted in OpenDocument (effective 2007). This created intense opposition from Microsoft
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, whose Office
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software uses proprietary
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