The importance of Document Freedom Day explained by Microsoft

[ Thanks to M.
Fioretti for this link. ]

“March 31st, 2010, is “Document Freedom Day (DFD), a
global day for document liberation”. Local events have been
organized all over the world to “educate the public about the
importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general”.

“Indeed, Free as in Freedom file formats are essential in a
world that depends so much on digital technology as ours: they are
necessary to preserve our culture, our memory, our data and lots of
our public money. If you want to know exactly why, you are welcome
read any of these resources:

“the DFD pages about Open Standards and Open Document
Formats

“the introduction to OpenDocument (ODF) by the ODF Fellowship
(here on Stop) File formats, alphabets and public money: did you
know that…

“my seminar on how file formats can favor (or hamper)
innovation, active citizenship and really free markets

“These are only a few of the many resources that you can use to
understand how important DFD is for you, even if, personally, you
don’t care at all about computers. The rest of this page, instead,
explains how even a job offer from one of the greatest enemies of
Document Freedom, Microsoft, proves the same point.”

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