Prime Minister's former aide arranged Microsoft donation to Finnish schools
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| Mikko Alkio, the new State Secretary at the Ministry of Employment and the
| Economy, who had previously served as aide to Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
| (Centre), was a key instigator of a donation from Microsoft of computer
| software to Finnish schools.
| Alkio was still working as manager for information society relations at
| Microsoft a couple of weeks ago when Prime Minister Vanhanen visited the
| United States.
| During his US visit, Vanhanen met with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates,
| who promised Finnish schools a free package of the Windows Live@edu
| service platform.
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http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Prime+Ministers+former+aide+arranged+Microsoft+donation+to+Finnish+schools/1135233671462
Microsoft employees spreading the poison from the inside, as usual. Novell,
Yahoo, XenSource, Nokia...
It's part of broader corruption, with a chair at Findland being fired/pressured
out for not locking the OOXML boot. Revolting.
Related:
ISOC.nl regrets absence of Netherlands decision on OOXML
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| This surprising result was the outcome of a lenghty discussion on whether or
| not it was fair to those members that had submitted several more
| controversial comments earlier that - without consensus on the compromise
| that had been worked on for months - these comments would not be included.
| This included some fundamental comments such as the mandatory use of ISO date
| codes, exclusive usage of the Gregorian calender (according to ISO 681),
| problems with intellectual property rights, etc). In addition some felt that
| during the process they had agreed on many comments to be ameliorated
| ('censored') in order to come to that same compromise. Without that
| compromise they would like to submit the original versions. The committee
| subsequently failed to get consensus on sending all comments. Therefore it
| will now not share any of its findings with ISO.
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http://isoc.nl/michiel/nodecisiononOOXML.htm
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