On 2008-03-01, Jesper Lund Stocholm <jls2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:3515290.LKe7cgyNvA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> ____/ Jesper Lund Stocholm on Saturday 01 March 2008 10:30 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>>>> Microsoft needs to give up ... now. It's just getting embarrassing.
>>>>> Their desperation is as palpable as their motives.
>>>>
>>>> They seem to have bribed India. I'll post about it in the afternoon.
>>>
>>> Ahem - did you miss how the Indians actually voted yesterday?
>>
>> No.
>
> So could you please explain to me the correlation between the Indian vote
> yesterday and Microsoft bribing them? According to a comment on Brian
> Jones' blog [0] India disapproved 97.86% of the responses from ECMA.
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> [0]
> http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/02/29/brm-is-done-time-to-sleep.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
Giving a bribe may be for "services rendered", but there's no absolute
assurance you bought the vote until the vote is cast. What is the
briber going to do to the bribeee, sue them for taking money and doing
nothing illegal?
Ask Hillary about her super-delegates if you don't want to take my word
for it.
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