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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Hires Fed Donna Bea-Tillman to Act as Government Shill and Give Microsoft Health Records

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Hires Fed Donna Bea-Tillman to Act as Government Shill and Give Microsoft Health Records
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:33:58 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Report: High ranking FDA official leaving post for lobbying job with Microsoft

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| Donna Bea-Tillman will leave her post at 
| Food and Drug Administration to join the 
| Washington, D.C. lobbying office of 
| Microsoft Corp., according to the Wall 
| Street Journal
| 
| Donna Bea-Tillman, the director of the 
| Food and Drug Administration's office of 
| device evaluation, will apparently resign 
| her post to join the lobbying office of 
| software giant Microsoft Corp., according 
| to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Tillman told her colleagues in the email 
| that she took the position with Microsoft 
| because of the potential for health 
| information technology to, "reduce the 
| skyrocketing cost of health care," 
| according to a copy of the email obtained 
| by the paper 
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http://www.massdevice.com/news/report-high-ranking-fda-official-leaving-post-lobbying-job-with-microsoft

Key FDA Medical-Device Regulator to Step Down 

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| The director of the Office of Device 
| Evaluation, one of the highest-ranking 
| positions at the Food and Drug 
| Administration, is leaving this month to 
| join the Washington office of Microsoft 
| Corp., according to an email she sent 
| Monday morning.
| 
| Donna-Bea Tillman, who has been with the 
| FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological 
| Health since 1994, said in the email that 
| she will become part of the software 
| giant's health solutions group as the 
| director of regulations and policy. The 
| FDA and Microsoft confirmed the move. 
`----

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704754604575095412328840740.html?mod=WSJ_business_IndustryNews_DHC

Microsoft Hires Ex-Regulator in Health Push

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| You probably wouldnât put Microsoft on the 
| list of companies in the market to hire 
| former FDA officials, but the software 
| giant snagged a top medical-device 
| regulator today.
| 
| Donna-Bea Tillman, head of the office of 
| device approvals, says her jump to 
| Microsoft isnât as unusual as it may seem. 
| She told colleagues in a memo she has long 
| had âa love for all things computer.â
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http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/03/01/microsoft-hires-ex-regulator-in-health-push/

Watch who's coming to the gangster operation:

Vivek Kundra, Obama's CIO, visits Seattle Thursday

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| After his San Francisco tour, Kundra is 
| coming to Seattle for a day Thursday 
| beginning with breakfast at Microsoft with 
| Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and other 
| local executives.
| 
| Microsoft will show Kundra advanced 
| research projects before he speaks at the 
| University of Washington in the afternoon. 
| He'll also meet with executives at 
| Amazon.com before making an appearance at 
| the Washington Technology Industry 
| Association's awards dinner.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011249366_kundra04.html


Recent:

Time To Rebut The IIPA's FUD Against Open Source

,----[ Quote ]
| A recent blog posting at The Guardian
| about the US "Special 301" rules has
| generated deep concern around the global
| open source community. It points (via a
| blog posting by Edinburgh University law
| lecturer Andres Guadamuz) to this year's
| recommendations from the controversially-
| named International Intellectual Property
| Alliance, which describes itself as "a
| private sector coalition... of trade
| associations representing U.S. copyright-
| based industries" - namely
|
|     "the Association of American
|     Publishers (AAP), the Business
|     Software Alliance (BSA), the
|     Entertainment Software Association
|     (ESA), the Independent Film &
|     Television Alliance (IFTA), the Motion
|     Picture Association of America (MPAA),
|     the National Music Publishers'
|     Association (NMPA) and the Recording
|     Industry Association of America
|     (RIAA)".
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http://opensource.org/node/510
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