Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Interview with Christian Fernandez, of Binary Freedom
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> | Unfortunately, companies like Microsoft have thrown around their
> | financial and political weight to combat our work. They defeated a
> | measure in Florida through lobbying and the only way this abuse will
> | stop is if we continue to fight them.
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> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs
interview_christian_fernandez_binary_freedom
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> Related:
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> Second CIO:
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> | As CIO of Massachusetts from February to November last year, Louis
> | Gutierrez had to endure most of the brunt of Microsoft Corp.'s political
> | wrath over a state policy calling for the adoption of the Open Document
> | Format for Office Applications, or ODF -- a rival to the software
> | vendor's Office Open XML file format.
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> http://www.computerworld.com/action
article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012760&source=rss_news50
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> First CIO:
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> | Quinn: Almost to a person, to anybody involved or who knows about
> | the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong
> | or otherwise. Senator Pacheco may be a bully but I do not believe he
> | is disingenious and would stoop to such a tactic. Senator Pacheco and
> | Secretary Galvin's office remain very heavily influenced by the
All they have to do is keep pressuring media to publish
the financial connections between asstroturfers and lobyists funded
by micoshaft corporation and bob is your uncle, the people
taking money from micoshaft will be in the spotlight explaining
why they should believe bum boys paid for by micoshaft corporation.
In the UK at least that kind of pressure keeps a lot of
paid for asstroturfing underground and illegal.
> |
> | Microsoft money and its lobbyist machine, as witnessed by their
> | playbook and words, in my opinion.
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> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729
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> Massachusetts Governor-Elect Names MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist to Technology
> Advisory Group
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> http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog
article.php?story=20061128161343183
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