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Re: [News] Microsoft OOXML Corruption in Colombia, New York Investigates ODF as an Option

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 03 August 2007 13:53 : \____
> 
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Have a look at this list:
>>> 
>>> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-15406/the-vendor-also-invades-colombia
>>> 
>>> There's no article, so here's the gist:
>>> 
>>> Sock Puppets to VoteSock Puppets to Vote on Monopoly Enablement in Colombia?
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Microsoft sets the deck of card and ensures that (at least) 9 of out 14
>>>| chairs in the technical committee are also in its pocket.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/03/colombia-ooxml/
>>> 
>> 
>> So what's the difference between the colombian drugs cartels and this
>> particular software cartel, I wonder?
>> 
>>> New York to Study Electronic Document Interoperability
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance) has hailed New York for
>>>| becoming the second state, along with Minnesota, to enact legislation
>>>| requiring study of electronic document formats.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>>
> http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/application/11028/new-york-study-electronic-document-interoperability
>>> 
>>> Even journalists see that Microsoft is cheating, bullying, and breaking the
>>> law.
>>> 
>>> http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/08/microsoft_rewri.html
>> 
>> I think that by finding this evidence, and republishing it repeatedly,
>> in the end, it's perhaps enough to out-do the spin-machine.  Not all
>> journalists have no principles, I'm sure.
> 
> This one reads my blog/s and unlike most journalists he actually /gets/ Free
> software, even if he does not use it.
> 

Good!  Some mainstream news journalists are now being exposed to the
truths, rather than the spin-machine.  It won't be long before they
start to put the numbers together.

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