Despite all the lobbying
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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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