Massachusetts residents, send comments supporting OpenDocument by July 20

[John Sullivan]

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 address@hidden

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