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Another desperate attempt to discredit Massachusetts OpenDocument adoption

Posted by tadelste on · 6 comments
OnLamp.com; By Andy Oram 		Mail this story
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It was on the front page of the Boston Globe newspaper today, and the lead article on their web site--an investigation that normally would be buried in the City & Region section of the paper. So you can't miss it: IT manager Peter Quinn of the Massachusetts state government is criticized for not fully reporting trips he took during his promotion of the OpenDocument format.

Microsoft, after a late start (like most technology companies) has poured millions into lobbying over the past decade. Rumors even suggest that several government IT managers who dared to consider open-source alternatives to Microsoft heard promptly from both the company and their own bosses to pull back. So it would be highly gratifying to Microsoft and those trying to maintain the status quo if someone could turn the tables and try to smear the proponents of open source with similar influence.
[Ed: Made the Front Page of Digg and Accepted by Slashdot. Thanks Lxer! -tadelste]

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tadelste Story submitter ·
This mornings news story instigated by the Boston Globe against Peter Quinn is pure slime. They're investigating him for going to some conferences. The amounts are peanuts. This isn't a Tom DeLay trip to Scotland's Golf Course for $500,000 where a Preston Gates and Ellis credit card receipt shows payment of the hotel and where the Microsoft lobbyist arranged the travel itinery.

This is dirty.

Digg Andy's story story. Don't let this slip through on a holiday.
helios ·
I recommend we do a command encore on this piece maybe three times this coming week. I'll dig it, and get it out to other wires, but we can't just let this run on a slow Saturday PM. At least that's my belief...this is too much to let slip by.

tadelste Story submitter ·
I agree. This isn't the last the world will hear of this story.

If only the rest of Massachusetts government...

Bob_Robertson ·
Having lived in Massachusetts, I can relate how badly I wish all the operations of the Massachusetts government cockroaches would be as closely investigated.

"Corrupt" is an absurd understatement. I wonder who paid for this "Front Page Advertisement"?
tadelste Story submitter ·
Bob_Robertson: Is that a rhetorical question?

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