For background about the Hague Declaration, see [1, 2, 3, 5] (most relevant first).

This new petition is another first step in the right direction in Britain. UK Residents might wish to sign it. It only takes a minute. It's the route to ODF (among other open standards), which is a prerequisites for Free software adoption.

A similar petition was started a while ago by Libervis -- one which asked to British government to back and defend the GNU GPL. ⬆

From the Campaign for Document Freedom