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Re: [News] Microsoft OOXML: Fail

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:53 am,  [H]omer wrote in comp.os.linux.advocacy:

> Jesper Lund Stocholm wrote:
>> "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:tq1r95-ng2.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx:
>>> Jesper Lund Stocholm wrote:
>>>> "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:l1ip95-r7p.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx:
> 
>> Someone posted the list of votes where India was cited as voting 100%
>> either dissaprove or abstain. After this Roy claimed that India had
>> been bribed by Microsoft. I just didn't understand this, since Roy
>> did not initially back up his claim with a reference.
> 
> But you understand now, presumably.

So he wants a reference for India being bribed by M$...well how about this:
[Old news from 2002, but nevertheless shows just what M$ do which doesn't get
reported in the "popular" press]
In 2002 Gates donated $100million to help India's fight against HIV. That was
reported by all the popular press, & what a great guy Gates was. But what
*wasn't* widely reported was the fact that Gates *also* funded $421 million in
the fight to stop India adopting Linux. In other words, in Gates's point of
view India adopting Linux was *four* times worse than their health initiative
against AIDS.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/13/gates_gives_100m_to_fight/

Now if *that* isn't a bribe....
M$ did it once, so who's to say they aren't *still* doing it, & won't do it
again in the future.


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