Massachusetts has released a policy which is very supportive of the free software community.
The policy commits them to storing data and conducting government business in file formats that are free and open. We commend the Commonwealth for moving in this direction. Proprietary software companies who stand to lose from the policy have been loudly complaining about it. Massachusetts will be reading e-mail comments on the issue until September 9th, 2005. Please take a moment to send them some positive feedback at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Let them know why you think free and open formats are a good idea. CC us on the email at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. We'll post a selection of the comments online. Please see the HTML announcement at http://www.fsf.org/news/opendocument.html for links to the policy itself. -- John Sullivan Program Administrator | Phone: (617)542-5942 x23 51 Franklin Street, 5th Fl. | Fax: (617)542-2652 Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA | GPG: AE8600B6 # Support the FSF by joining at http://member.fsf.org _______________________________________________ info-fsf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-fsf
