Update on ODF and Massachusetts
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As you may know, a brief comment period (expiring July 20) has been announced by the Mass. ITD during which anyone can agree or disagree with it's decision to add Microsoft's OOXML format to its list of approved "open standards." If this sounds like the right decision to you, then just stand by. If not...
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If, like me, that doesn't sound like such a good idea, you should check out Pamela Jones's entry at Groklaw. PJ has contributed hugely to the ODF effort in the past, and has just posted a long and informative entry at Groklaw, pointing her readers to various resources that they may wish to consult in preparing their own comments, as well as ideas on the various areas upon which comments may be relevant.
It's particularly important for you to consider doing so, because I learned from a reporter today that only about 50 comments have been filed with the ITD so far. With only 8 days to comment left, this compares very poorly to the over 150 comments that were received by the ITD in 2005. Right now, the default decision in the ITD's new version of the Enterprise Technical Reference Model is to include OOXML. In my last post, I paraphrased one slogan from the activist 1960's that helped to shape a lot of who I am today. I'd like to now offer another catchphrase from those braver and more involved times, this time a chant from the many protest rallies that punctuated the antiwar movement: "Silence means consent."
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