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Re: [News] EMC 'Buys' US Government; UK Government Petitioned for ODF

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/
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> Funny picture.
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> UK petition on Hague Declaration
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> | OpenOffice.org's John McCreesh tells us that the UK Prime Minister s
> | Office has accepted an e-petition:
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> | "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to adopt the Hague
> | Declaration of the Digital Standards Organisation."
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> http://www.digistan.org/forum/t-64401/uk-petition-on-hague-declaration
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> UK residents can sign it. It takes 1 minute.
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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.

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