* Roy Schestowitz fired off this tart reply:
> ____/ Rex Ballard on Monday 31 December 2007 15:01 : \____
>
>> Microsoft will probably lobby very hard, including visits by Steve
>> Ballmer, Bill and Melinda Gates, and other key Microsoft executives,
>> once they have found the three to four people who could reverse a
>> decision to use ODF.
>
> They have done it before. Microsoft lobbied hard in NYC. Gates and Ballmer made
> phonecalls to people in the Federal government to reverse the United
> States' "No" to OOXML. I could quickly fetch the references that support this.
Hmmm, I wonder if these people would talk to /me/.
"Senator, we have Linonut on line 3. He wants to talk to you about the
need for standards adherence."
"Linonut? That well-known gadfly and advocate for various technology
freedoms? The one who treats Microsoft like an ants' nest to kick?
That redoubtable repeller of trolls and other dumb-asses? Tell him I'll
have my people get with his people."
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Tux rox!
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