The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, an autonomous organisation under the Govt. of India, is a leading agency of the GoI involved in scientific and industrial research, and publication of scientific material. They run several journals related to different branches of science and technology. I found that they ask for manuscript in MS Word format. No other format is acceptable to them, including text, pdf, TeX, and, interestingly, RTF. I wrote a letter to them pointing out that they were forcing people to buy software that they may not need otherwise (even people who are using proprietary software may have other word processors like Lotus WordPro). There was no response from their side. I was forced to save in Word format from Open Office (I had originally prepared it in LaTeX), check for consistency in another computer having Word and send the file. Since this happened after a prolonged process of screening and final acceptance after almost one year after I had submitted it, I did not want to pull out. How can we bring some pressure on CSIR to move to Free Software?