Support open standards in Europe.
Go and sign the petition. I did, and wrote this 300 chars comment:
Open standards enable as many creators as possible to invent around the
standards-conforming documents and resources. EU citizens have many
to-be-invented systems in their minds — open standards speed up their
invention. Also, with readable documents to work on, these inventions are more
useful.
The end date for this “EU asks its citizens for comments” thing is July 31. It opened April 14. Summer months, when everyone’s in their hammock, doing as little as possible…
So, fire up your favorite editor, and tell them.
Lots of information about them old formats on that website, and lots of (scary) EU websites to go visit. Participate.