____/ 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
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | 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.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
>>
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.
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