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[News] Gates & Gang (and [G|P]artner) Go to Europe to Lobby

  • Subject: [News] Gates & Gang (and [G|P]artner) Go to Europe to Lobby
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:33:40 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Government Leaders’ Forum Europe

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| It is always a matter of perspective. Microsoft organizes a two day 
| conference to discuss "Perspectives of Modernising Government" with European 
| government representatives in Berlin, Germany. Bill Gates himself visits the 
| forum. A side purpose is to lift up a standard analyst from Gartner and 
| retired rent-a-politician on equal footings.    
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-36838/government-leaders-forum-europe


Related:

US ambassador to the EU was former Microsoft lobbyist 

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| Before C. Boyden Gray was named as George Bush's number one person in
| Europe, he was a lawyer lobbying on behalf of Microsoft. 
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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/


EU official joins consultancy serving Microsoft

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| A European Commission official originally chosen to lead its antitrust
| case against Microsoft left on Friday last week to work for a
| consultancy that has the software firm as a client, a spokesman said.
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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
http://tinyurl.com/h47g3


Study: open source needs official support; Lobbyist
disagrees with "flawed" conclusions

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| The study, commissioned by the European Commission, Directorate
| General Enterprise and Industry, is but a small part of the larger
| FLOSSPOLS project that aims to keep the EU a leader in global
| development of open source software.
|
| [...]
|
| Now, the ISC is widely regarded as a shill for Microsoft, although
| the member list also includes companies like Intel, Autodesk, and
| RSA Security (now an EMC subsidiary). The 300-strong member list is
| mostly padded with lesser lights such as Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi(
| Turkey), ThreeSixtyDegreez (Pakistan), and Datoprogrammu Apgads
| (Latvia). The institute pushes hard for the right to patent
| software, alongside regular bashings of open source businesses.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061017-8011.html


Leaked letter warns of open source 'threat to eco-system'

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| leaked letter to the European Commission has revealed the extent of
| lobbying by proprietary software groups to prevent the widespread
| adoption of open-source software.
|
| Sent in response to a recent report on the role of open-source
| software in the European economy, Microsoft-funded pressure
| group, the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) warned of
| potentially dire effects if too much encouragement was given
| to open source software development.
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http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7109


Years of deadlock on EU patent bring some new thinking

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| When Bill Gates visits Brussels on Thursday to speak with
| government officials, software developers and customers, he
| plans to wade into one of Europe's longest-running, most
| fruitless debates: the pursuit of a unified patent system. 
| Gates, chairman of Microsoft, wants a simple system that will
| allow the world's largest software maker and other companies
| to protect their intellectual property in the European Union -
| and profit from licensing their patents.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/08/business/patents.php


Lobbying critics target Brussels and Berlin

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| A suspected manipulation of a consultation on the future patent system of
| the European Union led to the EU Commission being nominated for
| the less-than-prestigious award -- which the Commission promptly
| went on to win in the category "Worst Privileged Access."
`----

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/82556/from/rss09


Gates blackmailed Danish government

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| Microsoft boss Bill Gates threatened to kill 800 Danish jobs if 
| Denmark opposed the European Computer Implemented Inventions
| Directive, reports today's Danish financial daily Børsen,
| quoted by NoSoftwarePatents.com.
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http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/02162005a.php


Conflict of interests of political party president in softwarepatents issue
in the EU

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| It now appears that Lehne works as a Brussels lobbying consultant
| for multinational corporations who are the main clients of one of
| the leading lawfirms for patent litigation in Europe, which is
| also itself involved in patent lobbying and closely connected
| to lobbying organisations.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/38793/index.html


How Microsoft distorted the facts in the Vienna conclusions

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| Lately, many signs exist showing how Microsoft's monopoly power
| extends to government and media. We can add a new example to this
| list: The "Vienna conclusions". It seems, their power even
| extends to distorting findings in official UN documents. The
| story contains all usual elements: Sponsorship, not willing
| to participate in public discussions, a conflict of interest
| of one of the members of the committee, and a Microsoft PR
| worker making a ridiculous statement. After that, of course,
| Microsoft denied most of it and ignored the rest.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/49522/index.html


IT Sstandrads Hijack Threatens European Economix Competitiveness

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| To stop Europe being rail-roaded into an inadequate standard, the
| ODF Alliance urges national supporters who have issues to raise
| contradictions of ECMA's standard with existing standards to
| encourage their national ISO representatives to raise formal
| contradictions as quickly as possible, certainly
| before 5th February 2007.
`----

http://sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=29267&hilite=

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