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Re: Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation

  • Subject: Re: Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:16:06 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Netscape
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__/ [ chrisv ] on Wednesday 18 April 2007 13:00 \__

> amicus_curious wrote:
> 
>>"John Bailo" <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244
>>>
>>>> It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped
>>>> into a Florida
>>>
>>> State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but within 24 hours
>>> three Microsoft-paid lobbyists,
>>>
>>> all wearing black suits, were pressuring members of the Senate Committee
>>> on Governmental Operations (COGO)
>>>
>>> to remove the words they didn't like from Senate bill 1974.
>>
>>Just another whiner who doesn't have the necessary stuff to get into the
>>game so he wants someone to lower the stakes so he can afford to play.
> 
> You are filthy piece of shit.


Well, he's paid for it, so what does /he/ care?
 

>>Lame.
> 
> Lame would be a big step up, for you.


Bigger than stepping from the Windows advocacy sewer to a place where he can
piss off every. Single. Person.


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