__/ [ John Bailo ] on Tuesday 17 April 2007 18:02 \__
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> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244
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>> It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped
>> into a Florida
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> 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.
The level of corruption in the United States is breathtaking.
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.
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http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission
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