Background information on ODF, OOXML and why It matters
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| In response they have apparently been sending PR teams around to national
| Standards boards all over the world(Ghana for a fact) to lobby for votes for
| OOXML under the guise of talking about ‘Open XML Standards’.
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| [...]
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| If OOXML is inappropriately tied to Microsoft tools and software, it doesn’t
| fit the definition of an open standard and making it one is inviting trouble
| we don’t want and probably can’t recover from quickly.
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http://ghanageek.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/background-information-on-odf-ooxml-and-why-it-matters/
CEO Trade Group Spent $4.6M Lobbying
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| The Business Roundtable, whose members include chief executives of 160 U.S.
| companies, spent $4.6 million in first half of 2007 to lobby the federal
| government, according to a disclosure form.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070817/business_roundtable_lobbying.html?.v=1
Yesterday:
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:
Politics and tech companies: follow the money
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061110-8194.html
Changing the Report, After the Vote
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission
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
Politicians in Microsoft's Pocket
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| Continuing on the theme of which politicians are receiving money from
| who. Here is a list of candidates who took money from MSFT.
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http://www.fonz.net/blog/archives/2007/06/04/politicians-in-microsofts-pocket/
Bill Gates to address Senate panel
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| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is scheduled to descend on Capitol Hill
| next week to pepper a U.S. Senate committee with his suggestions for
| boosting American competitiveness.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6163930.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
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