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Re: [News] British Prime Minister Claimed to be Dissing Microsoft, Praises GNUgle

bbgruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ bbgruff on Thursday 05 June 2008 23:58 : \____
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>>> Mark Kent wrote:
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>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>>> Prime minister Brown backs Google
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>>>>>| In a speech that read like a tacit disapproval of convicted monopolist
>>>>>| Microsoft, Brown banged on before an audience of business bigwigs about
>>>>>| the stupidity of protectionism.
>>>>> `----
>>>>> 
>>>>>
>>>
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/19/prime-minister-backs-google
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Gordon Brown is clearly not Blair's man.
>>> 
>>> Maybe.
>>> I still don't understand though.
>>> Did they edit out the bit that "read like a tacit disapproval of convicted
>>> monopolist Microsoft", or what?
>>> I've listened to it, I've read it, I've read the Q and A.
>>> Where is the Disapproval of MS bit?
>>> I've obviously missed something!
>> 
>> I noticed that too. Only The Inquirer (being anti-MS for the most part) took
>> this angle.
> 
> Thanks Roy (and Homer).
> That clears that up - I thought that perhaps I was having a Senior Moment
> there!
> 
> I wonder if the Inquirer guy missed the fact that this was a Google "do" at
> which Brown was speaking?
> 

My take on it was that he was speaking at a Google event at all, and
speaking of protectionism as being bad.  To me, that reads as a fairly
direct attack on Microsoft and their "relationship" with No10's previous
incumbent pretty directly.

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