__/ [ Au79 ] on Wednesday 18 April 2007 02:14 \__
> Tuesday April 17, 2007 (01:01 PM GMT)
>
> By: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller & others*
>
> It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped
> into a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but
> within 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits,
> were pressuring members of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations
> (COGO) to remove the words they didn't like from Senate bill 1974.
>
> http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244&from=rss
They have been doing this forever. Nice to see them getting caught by
journalists.
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