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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> EU official joins consultancy serving Microsoft
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>> | A European Commission official originally chosen to lead its antitrust
>> | case against Microsoft left on Friday last week to work for a
>> | consultancy that has the software firm as a client, a spokesman said.
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>> http://today.reuters.com/news
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>> http://tinyurl.com/h47g3
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>> For the record, this is very relevant to Linux because corruption at
>> government-level is sabotage to Linux adoption.
>>
>> Also see:
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>> US ambassador to the EU was former Microsoft lobbyist
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>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Before C. Boyden Gray was named as George Bush's number one person in
>> | Europe, he was a lawyer lobbying on behalf of Microsoft.
>> `----
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>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34706
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>>
>> US politicians go to bat for Microsoft
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/microsoft_eu_political_lobbying/
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>> Changing the Report, After the Vote
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>> | That agreement was nearly imperiled last weekend, though. Gerri
>> | Elliott, corporate vice president at Microsoft's Worldwide Public
>> | Sector division, sent an e-mail message to fellow commissioners Friday
>> | evening saying that she "vigorously" objected to a paragraph in which
>> | the panel embraced and encouraged the development of open source
>> | software and open content projects in higher education. The paragraph
>> | read like this:
>> |
>> | "The commission encourages the creation of incentives to promote
>> | the development of open-source and open-content projects at universities
>> | and colleges across the United States, enabling the open sharing of
>> | educational materials from a variety of institutions, disciplines, and
>> | educational perspectives. Such a portal could stimulate innovation, and
>> | serve as the leading resource for teaching and learning. New initiatives
>> | such as OpenCourseWare, the Open Learning Initiative, the Sakai Project,
>> | and the Google Book project hold out the potential of providing
>> | universal access both to general knowledge and to higher education."
>> `----
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>> http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission
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> To some extent, keeping this on file, and reproducing it whenever
> needed helps politicians to decide on what weight to attach against
> Micoshaft's entire corporate Asstroturfing campaigns.
> Any and all comments submitted by the entire Micoshaft corporate
> asstroturfing machinery could and should from now on count
> as just ONE VOTE. Reproduce above letter whenever somebody objects.
Be sure they'll continue to game the political system. This needs a radical
change in order to permanetly end, IMO.
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