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Re: New York Considers OpenDocument Format, Gnumeric Contaminated by Novell/Microsoft

____/ 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.

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