__/ [ B Gruff ] on Friday 22 September 2006 17:00 \__
> On Friday 22 September 2006 16:53 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Enough for now. It angers me just to think about it...
>
> So I see - and do calm down - it's not good for you:-)
>
> If it's any consolation, I think that there is a Dutch woman who actually
> understands these things of which you speak......:-)
She reminds me of the Iron Lady. Could be worse. It could be Golda Mair. In
any event, I admire the Commisssion's effort. I wish they had gone deeper
into ways of eradicating future monopolistic behaviour, which is permitted
in an electronic age of information reuse and free distribution. Cisco is
among the other criminals, not to mention Intel. And Google is heading in
the same direction, not only by snubbing standards and proposing
'extensionss'. Have a look at something I saw yesterday. There is too strong
an initiative to exclude competitors and not enough tools (laws) to forbid
it.
http://informationweek.com/software/linuxexperts/blog/archives/2006/09/europe_to_googl.html
Europe to Google: Don't poop on the carpet!
To make matters worse, it is the large companies that control the law, at one
level or another. Examples follow.
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
Don't Be Evil -- Hire It Done
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| "The NY Times among others is reporting that Google is ramping up its
| lobbying clout (registration or bugmenot required). The 'Don't be evil'
| search engine company has hired the infamous astroturfing and dirty
| tricks firm Direct Connect, Inc. You may remember DCI from their recent
| attempts to pass off their 'Penguin Army' video as a product of some
| lone wit, unconnected with their client, Exxon. Or their involvement in
| Microsoft's 'even dead voters love Microsoft' campaign. With a staff of
| veterans in the biz (such as Chris 'Swiftboat' LaCivita and Jim
| 'Electioneering' Tobin), led by Tom 'Big Tobacco on the Dole' Synhorst,
| I'm sure DCI will be able to give Google whatever they're paying them
| for. The question is, what are they paying them for? And does 'Don't be
| evil' imply 'Don't pay professionals to be evil for you?' Or could
| there possibly be a non-evil reason to hire these clowns?"
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http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/14/1534224&from=rss
Google forms political pressure group
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1355970172&rid=-50
Best wishes,
Roy
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