http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/05/2046210&from=rss
This is a good article reporting on a conference that was about getting open standards into the government. This is directly related to the legislation I was talking about the other day, that would force MN state government to use open standards-based documents for everything.
It’s a short read, not too bad for the Open Source layman, and it fairly accuratly describes how I think about this topic.