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For instance, Microsoft's new CLI ('Monad') looks incredible. I haven't had time to download what's available of it thus far, but I'm looking forward to exploring its capabilities. From what I've seen and read of it, it looks to be a step or two above and beyond any currently existing shell for Linux or *nix.

But that's proprietary. Yet, you'll not accept office 12 XML documents because they require agreement to a royalty free license?

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"But that's proprietary."

I didn't say the government of the state of Massachusits should adopt it as a standard; I said I wanted to take a look at it because I was personally interested in its capabilities.

"Yet, you'll not accept office 12 XML documents because they require agreement to a royalty free license?"

That's a strawman argument because I never said I wouldn't. I was commenting on the policy decisions of a state government, but you already knew that.