About Massachusetts…

“You know how I always tell you when I make a mistake? Well, it
looks like I made one when I told you that I didn’t think
Massachusetts would care what you said in any emails about
Microsoft’s OfficeOpen XML specification (now Ecma 376) being
proposed as an addition to their list of usable “open standards”.
I’m hearing that they are reading the emails and will take them
seriously. It’s a proposal, and it’s not yet carved in stone. Time
will tell if they mean it, but with that reassurance, I have to put
my cynicism on hold, at least for now, and say that if this is an
issue you care about, you need to let them know how you feel in
polite and informative emails before July 20th, 2007. It never
hurts to try, particularly since I’ve no doubt Microsoft is
lobbying wherever it can. When I thought it was useless, I didn’t
want to pretend otherwise or have you engage in make work. But if
it has a chance, it’s very different…”

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