Massachusetts is considering making Microsoft's attempted answer to OpenDocument, Microsoft Office Open XML, an acceptable format for its documents. Such a decision would force Massachusetts citizens and government officials to be dependent on Microsoft, because MS-OOXML cannot be freely implemented by anyone else.
Massachusetts is accepting comments on this decision until Friday, July 20th. Please join us in letting them know that as a government, we expect them to use a format for their documents that is independent of any proprietary vendor and fully implementable in free software. OpenDocument meets that requirement; MS-OOXML does not. Read the details at http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ooxml-is-not-open, and then send your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Sullivan Campaigns Manager | Phone: (617)542-5942 x23 | http://badvista.org 51 Franklin Street, 5th Fl. | Fax: (617)542-2652 | http://www.gnu.org Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA | GPG: AE8600B6 | http://www.fsf.org _______________________________________________ info-fsf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-fsf
