Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 05 June 2008 22:09 : \____
>
>> SomeBloke <stuff@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
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>>>> EMC lobbying dollars reached $730,000 in first quarter
>>>>
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>>>> | EMC has been spending a pretty penny to lobby the US government in the
>>>> | first quarter. The storage vendor disclosed it payed out $730,000 wooing
>>>> | Washington in only three months ? a personal record since it began
>>>> | disclosing its lobbying activities.
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/04/emc_first_quarter_08_lobbying_dollars/
>>>>
>>>> Funny picture.
>>>>
>>>> UK petition on Hague Declaration
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | OpenOffice.org's John McCreesh tells us that the UK Prime Minister s
>>>> | Office has accepted an e-petition:
>>>> |
>>>> | "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to adopt the Hague
>>>> | Declaration of the Digital Standards Organisation."
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.digistan.org/forum/t-64401/uk-petition-on-hague-declaration
>>>>
>>>> UK residents can sign it. It takes 1 minute.
>>>>
>>>>
>>><snip>
>>>
>>> Went off and signed Roy, and I noticed your name! I like these online
>>> petitions although I don't know how effective they are. At least they let
>>> those supposedly in charge know how we feel about free software and open
>>> standards.
>>
>> I'm just in the process of doing the same. I notice that Mark Taylor
>> managed 2nd place!
>
> I can only guess it stemmed from Sirius IT, but I don't know. The Digital
> Majority site (Digistan) had some name listed.
>
I think so. Ian Lynch's name was fairly well up on the list too, but
I'm there as well now. Anyway, anyone voting /against/ open-standards
in government procurement can only be voting /for/ corruption.
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