I Run Linux, and I Don't Hate Microsoft
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| Microsoft is seeking to own every note of music, pixel of image, word of
| speech, frame of video, and byte of code.
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| Microsoft will eventually patent all technology, from the time machine going
| backward to the wheel and fire.
|
| Microsoft is looking forward to putting the DRM in your grandchildren's DNA.
|
| Microsoft is planning on attaching their EULA to every birth, marriage, and
| death certificate.
|
| Microsoft wants to be there when you colonize Mars, selling you your oxygen
| permits.
|
| Microsoft aspires to be running on the chips that we'll eventually be
| implanting in our brains.
|
| Microsoft would like to be the government. Judging by how many senators and
| congressmen they have in their pockets, I'd say they're mostly there. They
| sure contribute to the campaign funds a lot. Two governments have tried to
| prosecute them for anti-trust; Microsoft brushed them aside with some more
| cash without missing a step. If the United States, a global super-power,
| cannot make Microsoft answer to it, then what does that make Microsoft?
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=i_run_linux_and_i_don_t_hate_microsoft&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://tinyurl.com/3ydj99
Recent:
Microsoft trying to derail Google/DoubleClick deal by lobbying congress
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| Microsoft has hired lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLC to do work on "competitive
| issues surrounding Google/DoubleClick [sic] merger."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-microsoft-spends-40000-to-lobby-congress-about-googledoubleclick-merger.html
Related:
Packing The Court At The ISO?
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| ...P member countries ('participating member' countries) sending
| representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of
| their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees.
|
| [...]
|
| How can they not see that OOXML (ECMA 376) is unwanted by anyone outside of
| Microsoft? How about it Brian Jones? Are you really so desperate that you
| have to resort to that?
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http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/packing-the-court-at-the-iso/
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| Quinn: Almost to a person, to anybody involved or who knows about
| the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong
| or otherwise. Senator Pacheco may be a bully but I do not believe he
| is disingenious and would stoop to such a tactic. Senator Pacheco and
| Secretary Galvin's office remain very heavily influenced by the
| Microsoft money and its lobbyist machine, as witnessed by their
| playbook and words, in my opinion.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729
MA Governor-Elect Names MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist to Technology Advisory Group
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061128161343183
Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation
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| 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.
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244&from=rss
Leaked letter warns of open source 'threat to eco-system'
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7109
Study: open source needs official support; Lobbyist disagrees with "flawed"
conclusions
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061017-8011.html
Report Says Nonprofits Sold Influence to Abramoff
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200889.html
Open Source Foes In Bed With Abramoff
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/12/2036223&from=rss
EU official joins consultancy serving Microsoft
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-10-03T134311Z_01_L03693228_RTRIDST_0_TECH-MICROSOFT-OFFICIAL.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
US ambassador to the EU was former Microsoft lobbyist
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34706
US politicians go to bat for Microsoft
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/microsoft_eu_political_lobbying/
Changing the Report, After the Vote
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission
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