Will proprietary file formats raise your taxes?

"The Commonwealth of Massachusetts says legal worries helped drive it to open standards, but Microsoft has lambasted the move."

So imagine this: your state or local government uses a proprietary (i.e. Intellectual Property, IP) file format from a company and begins using it. At some point either the company goes out of business, and your local government is stuck with it, or the company begins pressuring your local government for more money. Now, you not only have to pay taxes to your state or local government but your taxes were just raised because of the proprietary nature of this technology.

Is this something in which you want your state and local officials to intangle your tax dollars with? And not only does your hard earned tax dollars go to IP but now you as a citizen have to purchase this proprietary format to deal with you governments.

Is this something which you want to be locked into?