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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Will Fail to Use Feds to Hurt Google, Says Google

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Will Fail to Use Feds to Hurt Google, Says Google
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:57:40 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Google sure DoubleClick bid will clear

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| He mentioned two other deals consolidating the ad industry: Microsoft's $6 
| billion acquisition of Seattle-based online advertising firm aQuantive Inc. 
| and advertising conglomerate WPP Group PLC's purchase of another online ad 
| company 24/7 Real Media Inc. for $649 million.   
`----

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071026/ap_on_hi_te/google_doubleclick

It started with a Microsoft snitch after Microsoft /itself/ offered /more/ for
DoubleClick and got rejected by DoubleClick investors. Microsoft compalining
about Monopoly and sucking up to Feds. Imagine that....


Related:

Microsoft trying to derail Google/DoubleClick deal by lobbying congress

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft has hired lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLC to do work on "competitive 
| issues surrounding Google/DoubleClick [sic] merger." 
`----

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-microsoft-spends-40000-to-lobby-congress-about-googledoubleclick-merger.html

So it's not just the one guy that got exposed yesterday. It's a whole firm.

More here:
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9760830-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Legislators Wimp Out on Open Document Format Bills

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| As both Peter Quinn and Louis Gutierrez both found out, trying to 
| make responsible standards-related decisions where huge sums of 
| vendor revenues are at stake is scarcely a career-enhancing pastime. 
| CIOs should be entitled to stay out of harm's way, and try their best 
| to serve the public's interests the best they can. Where that can't be 
| done, legislatures should protect them, and keep them safe from the 
| types of unwarranted threats and attacks that Carol Sliwa reported 
| on in a series of public-records request-based stories at ComputerWorld 
| last December.
| 
| [...]
| 
| After the impressive lobbying assault mounted over the past six 
| months against open document format legislation, I expect you 
| won't be hearing of many state IT departments taking the baton 
| back from their legislators. 
|  
| And who can blame them? If they tried, it wouldn't be likely to 
| be anything as harmless as an open document format that would 
| bite them in the butt.
`----

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070610175856704


Microsoft trounces pro-ODF forces in state battles over open document formats

,----[ Quote ]
| In a resounding victory for Microsoft Corp., bills seeking to mandate the 
| use of open document formats by government agencies have been defeated 
| in five states, and only a much-watered-down version of such legislation 
| was signed into law in a sixth state.
`----

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9022878


Packing The Court At The ISO?

,----[ Quote ]
|      ...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?
`----

http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/packing-the-court-at-the-iso/


Q&A: Former Mass. CIO feels 'bittersweet pride' after battles with Microsoft,
legislature

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| As CIO of Massachusetts from February to November last year, Louis 
| Gutierrez had to endure most of the brunt of Microsoft Corp.'s political 
| wrath over a state policy calling for the adoption of the Open Document 
| Format for Office Applications, or ODF -- a rival to the software vendor's 
| Office Open XML file format.
`----

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012760&source=rss_news50


,----[ Quote ]
|    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.
`----

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


Bonnie Garcia - Enter the FUD Brigade

,----[ Quote ]
| In opposing California AB 1668, Bonnie spreads a heaping 
| helping of fear, uncertainty and doubt by discussing 
| wholly unrelated IT projects that failed.
`----

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpfu7pwabLY


Bill seeks study of open document formats in New York

,----[ Quote ]
| A bill introduced in the New York state legislature on 
| Wednesday would require the state government's IT director 
| to study the issue of using open document formats within 
| agencies, although the proposal doesn't seek to 
| mandate an immediate or long-term move to such formats.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Microsoft also is seeking the ISO stamp of approval for 
| Office Open XML, the default file format in its Office 
| 2007 software. But the software vendor has fought 
| the open formats bills in every state as part of an 
| effort to protect its Office franchise.
`----

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1431489376&rid=-50


Politics and tech companies: follow the money

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061110-8194.html


Years of deadlock on EU patent bring some new thinking

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/08/business/patents.php

,----[ Quote ]
| "A source that deals with the company said unofficially that Gates
| proposed Microsoft's Digital Rights Management technology as a national
| standard to fight piracy at the governmental level."
`----

http://www.kommersant.com/p719683/r_528/


State by state, Microsoft responds to creeping threat

,----[ Quote ]
| Characteristically, as lawmakers like Homan have learned,
| Microsoft's hardly taking a passive position.
| 
| [...]
| 
| 'Microsoft sees what's coming. Things like Word and Excel 
| sort of like a drug now getting ready to go generic.'
`----

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/state-state-microsoft-responds-assault/story.aspx?guid=%7BC0D943C4%2D4ADC%2D471C%2D8F87%2D9181A4EC3E7B%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2akafj


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. 
`----

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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