Despite all the lobbying

Story: Large academic international interdisciplinary study on FLOSS gets the real factsTotal Replies: 3
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schestowitz

Jan 16, 2007
11:39 PM EDT
I can't help but think of all the attempts to intercept studies that reveal the truth, e.g.:

Leaked letter warns of open source 'threat to eco-system'

http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7109



Study: open source needs official support; Lobbyist disagrees with "flawed" conclusions

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061017-8011.html

IDC pronounces Linux unimportant to European economy

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34542

US politicians go to bat for Microsoft

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/microsoft_eu_politic...

US ambassador to the EU was former Microsoft lobbyist

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34706

EU official joins consultancy serving Microsoft

http://tinyurl.com/h47g3

hkwint

Jan 17, 2007
8:26 AM EDT
There's much more stuff like that. I wrote more stories on the subject. Like:

How Microsoft distorted the facts in the Vienna conclusions

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/49522/index.html

Conflict of interests of political party president in softwarepatents issue in the EU

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/38793/index.html

And more references:

'Bill Gates blackmailed Danish parliament'

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/02162005a.php

Then, there's an amusing story about how European MEP's could collect 'their free softice', paid by the pro-patent lobby (link gone). And, McGreevy, who has gotten Microsoft as a sponsor when Ireland had the chairmanship of Europe, is now the Eurocommissioner who's handling the software-patent fuzz.
schestowitz

Jan 17, 2007
11:47 AM EDT
Thanks, Hans. I have passed these stories onwards.
henke54

Feb 02, 2007
2:21 AM EDT
Quoting:A TOP MICROSOFT suit wanted to hide the fact that it shelled out money to IDC to produce a report critical of the cost of using Linux.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37381

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