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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ 7 ] on Saturday 09 September 2006 02:29 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> MEPs complain of Microsoft hounding
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Four MEPs - three of them from the UK - have complained about the
>>> | European Commission's actions toward Microsoft, claiming it could
>>> | endanger the competitiveness of European businesses by delaying the
>>> | release of Windows Vista.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.techworld.com/applications/news
>> index.cfm?newsID=6814&pagtype=samechan
>>>
>>>
>>> For context:
>>>
>>> "Microsoft Threatens Vista Delay Amid Dispute With EU Regulators"
>>>
>>> -- The Wall Street Journal Online, yesterday
>>
>>
>> Hmmm...
>>
>> It may be necessary to have these MEPs probed to see if there
>> some kind of financial tie in between them and micoshaft
>> or their lobby arms.
>>
>> Its unusual for EU politicians to be doing similar
>> things to amerikkkan politicians who in the past are known to take
>> money to speak on behalf of big business which is invariably
>> a distorted and corrupt message because of the tie in with money.
>
> The above was accessible only with a (paid)subscription to the WSJ. Here is
> one which gives more details.
>
> Vista letter MEPs back local delicacies
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34261
>
> The Inquirer is down at this very moment, so all I can see is the excerpt in
> my feed reader:
>
> "IT SEEMS that the three MEPs from the UK angry with European regulators over
> its treatment of Microsoft don?t mind the odd bit of interventionism where
> it suits them."
>
> ...Could indeed be, as you suggest, Microsoft sock puppets. I have
> noticed--and therefore assume--that they have had removed the leaked
> Microsoft UK training video (The Office cast). I can't seem to find it.
> Distrubing evidence... politics and tricks that drive business. Nepotism
> culture.
There are definitely ties - one of them met Ballmer, recently, for
example.
I posted a note saying that this would happen only a few days ago...
wonder if I can find it.
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